1148

Subshrub, Forb
Perennial

Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC -

Rare, though sometimes very locally abundant

Look for it on grassy balds, in crevices of rock outcrops at high (rarely moderate) elevations, high elevation glades, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Evergreen
Ternately compound
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer
White
Radially symmetrical
5 united sepals/5 bracts
5 petals
28 stamens (approximately)

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Achene

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p230
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p119
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p153
• Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p438
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p070

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Sibbaldia tridentata   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sibbaldiopsis tridentata   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 097-04-008:
Potentilla tridentata   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Sibbaldiopsis tridentata