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Common Name:
Garden Asparagus, Sparrowgrass
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Asparagus officinalis
Flowers pendant; pedicels w a conspicuous swollen joint; perianth campanulate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Sprenger’s Asparagus-fern, Emerald-fern
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Asparagus aethiopicus
Flowers are white or pale pink, very fragrant, small and hardly noticeable, per Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants.
Common Name:
Coastal Carrionflower, Bamboo-vine
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Nemexia leptanthera
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Nemexia tamnifolia
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Common Name:
Midwestern Carrionflower
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The Biota of North America Program. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Smilax lasioneuron
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Smilax herbacea var. lasioneura
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Nemexia lasioneuron
Flowers in axillary umbels, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Common Carrionflower, Smooth Carrionflower
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Nemexia herbacea
Flowers in axillary umbels, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Common Name:
Downy Carrionflower
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Nemexia pulverulenta
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Common Name:
Biltmore Carrionflower
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Nemexia biltmoreana
Flowers in axillary umbels, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Huger's Carrionflower
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Nemexia hugeri
Flowers yellowish-green, foul-smelling, in round umbels from leaf axils, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Flora of North America
Smilax ecirrhata
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Nemexia ecirrhata
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Common Name:
Common Greenbrier, Common Catbrier, Bullbrier, Horsebrier
Flowers in axillary umbels, perianth greenish, campanulate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Stretchberry, Fringed Greenbrier, Catbrier, Tramp's Trouble
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Smilax bona-nox
Stalk of the umbel > 1.5x as long as the subtending leaf petiole, per Weakley's Flora.
Common Name:
Bristly Greenbrier, Hellfetter, Chinaroot
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Smilax hispida
Common Name:
Whiteleaf Greenbrier, Wild Sarsaparilla, Sawbrier
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Common Name:
Coral Greenbrier, Red-berried Swamp Smilax
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Smilax walteri
Perianth brownish-yellow (vs. that of S. rotundifolia is green), per Weakley's Flora.
Common Name:
Dune Greenbrier
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Smilax auriculata
Common Name:
Bamboo-vine, Blaspheme-vine, Wild Bamboo, Laurel-leaf Greenbriar
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Smilax laurifolia
Common Name:
Jackson-brier, Unarmed Catbrier, Sweet-scented Smilax
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Smilax lanceolata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Smilax maritima
Common Name:
Dwarf Smilax, Sarsaparilla-vine
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Smilax pumila
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Common Name:
Little Sweet Betsy, Purple Toadshade
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Trillium hugeri
Sepals lanceolate, 3-5cm long, erect to divergent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Yellow Trillium, Yellow Toadshade, Lemon Trillium, Wax Trillium
INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Trillium viride var. luteum
Ovary and stamens greenish-white during flowering, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Mottled Trillium, Spotted Trillium
INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Trillium sessile
Narrow petal bases allow the stamens and anthers to be clearly visible, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Common Name:
Pale Yellow Trillium, Faded Trillium, Small Yellow Toadshade, Savannah River Trillium
The only sessile-flowered Trillium with clawed spatulate pale yellow petals, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
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Common Name:
Lanceleaf Trillium, Narrowleaf Trillium
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Trillium lanceolatum
Petals stiffly erect, extremely narrow; stamens arched over ovary, per Trilliums of Georgia. Tipularia (Patrick, 2007).
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Common Name:
Wateree River Trillium
Previously misidentified as
Trillium lanceolatum
Previously misidentified as
Trillium lancifolium
Wider petals, shorter stamens, and shorter claws than T. lancifolium, per A New Sessile-flowered Trillium from SC. Phytologia (Gaddy, 2008).
Common Name:
Northern Nodding Trillium
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Common Name:
Southern Nodding Trillium
Petals strongly recurved; ovary mostly white to pink, stamens bicolored, per Trilliums of Georgia. Tipularia (Patrick, 2007).
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Common Name:
Red-flowered Red Trillium, Purple Trillium, Stinking Willie, Stinking Benjamin
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Trillium erectum
Petals spreading from base in the same plane as the sepals, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
White-flowered Red Trillium
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Trillium erectum
Stamens & ovary (cup) totally exposed. Sepals & petals (saucer) spreading, per Trilliums of Georgia. Tipularia (Patrick, 2007).
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Common Name:
Southern Red Trillium, Barksdale's Trillium
The flower gaping in profile; petals ovate, gradually spreading, per Trilliums of Georgia. Tipularia (Patrick, 2007).
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Common Name:
Vasey's Trillium, Sweet Trillium, Sweet Beth
Nodding flowers with broadly ovate petals and long exserted stamens, per Trilliums of Georgia. Tipularia (Patrick, 2007).
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Resembles T. flexipes in ovary characters and floral fragrance, per Trilliums of Georgia. Tipularia (Patrick, 2007).
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Common Name:
Bent Trillium, Bent White Trillium, Bentstalk Trillium, Drooping Trillium
Petals are white (rarely maroon), spreading, and broadly lance-shaped, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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Common Name:
Sweet White Trillium, Confusing Trillium, Jeweled Trillium
Petals broad enough to overlap at base; stamens much longer than the ovary, per Trilliums of Georgia. Tipularia (Patrick, 2007).
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Common Name:
Catesby's Trillium, Rosy Wake-robin, Bashful Trillium, Rose Trillium
Petals strongly reflexed above the tube; anthers curved outward, per Trilliums of Georgia. Tipularia (Patrick, 2007).
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Common Name:
Large-flowered Trillium, White Wake-robin, Great White Trillium, Showy Wake-robin
Petals overlap at the base to form a strongly funnel-shaped flower, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC.
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Common Name:
Carolina Least Trillium, Virginia Dwarf Trillium
Pollen light yellow, anthers purplish-green between anther sacs, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Painted Trillium, Striped Wake-robin
Petals usually white with an inverted red "V" near the base, often undulate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Lookout Mountain Trillium
INCLUDED WITHIN
Trilliums of Georgia. Tipularia (Patrick, 2007)
Trillium ludovicianum
Petals narrow (< 1/2" wide); ovary purplish; floral fragrance obnoxious, per Trilliums of Georgia. Tipularia (Patrick, 2007).
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Common Name:
Chattahoochee Trillium, Deceptive Trillium
Petals overlapping at the base, hiding the stamens & ovary, per Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia.
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Common Name:
Decumbent Trillium, Trailing Trillium
Flowers half or more as long as subtending leaves [vs. T. reliquum < half], per Trilliums of Georgia. Tipularia (Patrick, 2007).
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Trillium ludovicianum
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Common Name:
Persistent Trillium, Edna's Trillium
Flowers weakly trumpet-shaped to merely gaping, per Trilliums of Georgia. Tipularia (Patrick, 2007).
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Common Name:
Prairie Trillium, Prairie Wake-robin
Petals 2-3x long as wide, with narrowed bases resembling claws, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Relict Trillium
Flowers less than half as long as subtending leaves, per Trilliums of Georgia. Tipularia (Patrick, 2007).
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Common Name:
Twisted Trillium
The narrow, twisted, spreading petals resemble an airplane propeller, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Underwood's Trillium
Petals narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate-obovate, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Indian Cucumber-root
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Medeola virginiana
Yellow-green flwrs w 6 recurved petal-like structures & 3 long brown stigmas, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont.
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Common Name:
Bluebead-lily, Clinton's Lily, Yellow Clintonia, Yellow Bead Lily
A short terminal raceme of 3-8 nodding, greenish-yellow flowers, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Speckled Wood-lily, White Clintonia
Erect white flowers are usually purple-dotted, per Newcomb's Wildflower Guide.
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Common Name:
False Solomon's Seal, Eastern Solomon's Plume, May-plume
INCLUDED WITHIN
Tennessee Flora Committee (2015)
Maianthemum racemosum
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Vagnera australis
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Vagnera racemosa
Numerous flowers in a dense terminal panicle 2-6" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Starry Solomon's Seal, Starry Solomon's Plume, Starflower
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Smilacina stellata
Flowers in a simple raceme; perianth segments 6, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Canada Mayflower, False Lily-of-the-valley, Wild Lily-of-the-valley
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Unifolium canadense
The 4 tepals (2 sepals, 2 petals) are elliptic, reflexed & about 0.1" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Yellow Mandarin, Yellow Fairybells
Flowers terminate the branches opposite the last leaf. Perianth unspotted, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Nodding Mandarin, Spotted Mandarin
Flowers terminate the branch opposite last leaf. Perianth spotted with purple, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Rosy Twisted-stalk, Eastern Rose Mandarin, Eastern Twisted-stalk
INCLUDING
PLANTS National Database
Streptopus lanceolatus var. roseus
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Streptopus roseus
Flowers bell-shaped, hanging singly from a short pedicel beneath the axils, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
Common Name:
Clasping Twisted-stalk, White Mandarin, Pagoda-bells
INCLUDING
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Streptopus amplexifolius var. americanus
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Tortipes amplexifolius
Common Name:
Hairy Solomon's Seal, Downy Solomon’s Seal
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Polygonatum biflorum
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Common Name:
Smooth Solomon's Seal
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Polygonatum commutatum
Flowers tubular with 6 short lobes, greenish when young, white when mature, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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