Native & Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas & Georgia

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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Sweetflag, European Calamus
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Acorus calamus
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Acorus calamus
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Acorus calamus 032-01-001

Inflorescence a cylindric tapering spadix; leaf-like spathe continues up, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.

range map need picture of flower of Acorus americanus, Sweetflag, American Calamus
speaker icon Common Name: Sweetflag, American Calamus
Weakley's Flora: (11/30/12) Acorus americanus
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Acorus americanus
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Acorus calamus 032-01-001?

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"Linnaeus attempted to bring the work of botanical scholars together, and to publish descriptions and names of all known plants in a single volume.... The 'Species Plantarum' ... became the foundation of the modern science of botany, for it included all the plants known and named up to ... about the middle of the 18th century." — Julia E. Rogers, Trees Worth Knowing