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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
Your search found 13 taxa in the family Melanthiaceae, Bunchflower family, as understood by Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Fly-poison
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Amianthium muscitoxicum FAMILY: Melanthiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Amianthium muscitoxicum FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Amianthium muscaetoxicum 041-21-001 FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: In a wide variety of mesic to dry forests, pine savannas, longleaf pine sandhills, meadows, from 5m to at least 1600m in elevation
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Florida Feathershank
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Schoenocaulon dubium FAMILY: Melanthiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Schoenocaulon dubium FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: Dry pine savannas, longleaf pine sandhills, Florida scrub
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Large Death Camas, Snakeroot, Sandbog Death-camas, Bog Death Camas
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Zigadenus glaberrimus FAMILY: Melanthiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Zigadenus glaberrimus FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Zigadenus glaberrimus 041-22-001 FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: Sandhill seepage bogs, pine savannas, pocosin edges
Common in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: White Death-camas, White Camass, Mountain Death-camas
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Anticlea glauca FAMILY: Melanthiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Zigadenus elegans ssp. glaucus FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Zigadenus glaucus 041-22-002 FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: Limestone and dolostone woodlands, glades, cliffs, and outcrops
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Crow-poison, Savanna Camass, Osceola-plume
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Stenanthium densum FAMILY: Melanthiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Zigadenus densus FAMILY: Liliaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Zigadenus densus 041-22-003 FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: Pine savannas, pine flatwoods
Common in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Pinebarrens Death-camas
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Stenanthium leimanthoides FAMILY: Melanthiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Zigadenus leimanthoides FAMILY: Liliaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Zigadenus leimanthoides 041-22-004 FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: High elevation rock outcrops, shrub balds, seepage areas at high elevations, fens, bogs in the Coastal Plain
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Virginia Bunchflower, Bog Bunchflower
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Melanthium virginicum FAMILY: Melanthiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Veratrum virginicum FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Melanthium virginicum 041-23-001 FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: Pine savannas, bogs, fens, seeps, wet seepage-fed forests
Uncommon in Mountains & Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Crisped Bunchflower, Broadleaf Bunchflower, Slender Bunchflower
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Melanthium hybridum FAMILY: Melanthiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Veratrum hybridum FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Melanthium hybridum 041-23-002 FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: Moist to dry forests, usually in base-rich soils
Uncommon in Carolina Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
White-hellebore, Indian Poke, Green Hellebore, Cornhusk Lily
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Veratrum viride FAMILY: Melanthiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Veratrum viride FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Veratrum viride 041-24-001 FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: Seeps, streambanks, wet boulderfields
Common in NC Mountains, rare in GA
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mountain Bunchflower, Small-flowered Hellebore, Small False Hellebore, Appalachian Bunchflower
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Melanthium parviflorum FAMILY: Melanthiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Veratrum parviflorum FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Veratrum parviflorum 041-24-002 FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: Moist to rather dry forests, up to at least 1700 meters, most frequent in oak forests at middle elevations
Common in Carolina Mountains, uncommon in GA Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Ozark Bunchflower, Wood's False-hellebore
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Melanthium woodii FAMILY: Melanthiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Veratrum woodii FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: Circumneutral soil of woodlands over mafic rocks (such as amphibolite) or other calcareous substrates, hammocks
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Featherbells, Eastern Featherbells
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Stenanthium gramineum var. gramineum FAMILY: Melanthiaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Stenanthium gramineum var. gramineum FAMILY: Liliaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Stenanthium gramineum 041-25-001 FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: Dry and mesic forests and woodlands, grassy balds, serpentine barrens, to at least 1700m in elevation
Common in Carolina Mountains, uncommon in GA Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Bog Featherbells
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Stenanthium gramineum var. robustum FAMILY: Melanthiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Stenanthium gramineum var. robustum FAMILY: Liliaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Stenanthium gramineum 041-25-001? FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: Bogs and wet meadows
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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