Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Cow-parsnip at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Apiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Heracleum maximum
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Heracleum maximum
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-36-001:
Heracleum lanatum
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
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Heracleum sphondylium ssp. montanum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
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Heracleum sphondylium var. lanatum
COMMON NAME:
Cow-parsnip, American Hogweed, Masterwort
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Look for it in forests, roadbanks, meadows, forest openings, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Biennial
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
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Uncommon in NC, rare in GA
...Variable
LEAVES:
Ternately or pinnately compound
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Bisexual & staminate
Somewhat asymmetrical
5-merous
Inferior ovary
Flowers in compound umbels
FRUIT:
Summer
Schizocarp of two mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p218
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p070
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p170
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p214
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p114
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