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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Spigelia marilandica
FAMILY
Loganiaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spigelia marilandica
FAMILY
Loganiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 154-02-001:
Spigelia marilandica FAMILY Loganiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Spigelia marylandica
COMMON NAME:
Indian-pink, Woodland Pinkroot, Wormgrass
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA Forest Service / A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia. 1969 mpa_page_241
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_spma3_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm120415_072
April Pickens County SC
Clemson Forest
Leaves sessile, with leaf tips acute or acuminate & bases usually rounded, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm120424_618b
April Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
The scarlet-red petals fused and tubular for most of their 2" length, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
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Keith Bradley kab_s_marilandica_0413
April Lexington County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120506_609b
May Oconee County SC
5 linear sepals, 3-12mm long and tapered from base to apex, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm220527_8158
May Oconee County SC
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Mark A. Musselman mam_indianpink051006n
May Dorchester County SC
Audubon Center at Francis Beidler Forest
The 5 lobes of the corolla spread to create a yellow star, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_marilandica_c2
May
The style usually extends well outside the corolla tube, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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Ben Geer Keys bgk1451_b
June
Inflorescence terminal, one or two ebracteate, spicate helicoid cymes, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm0506h_37
June Oconee County SC
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JK Marlow jkm190604_8891
June Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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JK Marlow jkm200606_5790
June Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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Sam Pratt sbp_3217
June Spartanburg County SC
In cultivation
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JK Marlow jkm0507m_20
July Oconee County SC
Irregularly angled black seeds catapault before the capsule appears ripe, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm080726_164
July Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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JK Marlow jkm080726_166
July Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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JK Marlow jkm120728_030
July Abbeville County SC
Parson's Mountain Recreation Area
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JK Marlow jkm120728_031
July Abbeville County SC
Parson's Mountain Recreation Area
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JK Marlow jkm161009_903
October Pickens County SC
Clemson Forest
Venation impressed; lateral veins curved.
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JK Marlow jkm201113_8210
November Greenville County SC
Caesars Head State Park
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Spigelia marilandica
FAMILY
Loganiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spigelia marilandica
FAMILY
Loganiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 154-02-001:
Spigelia marilandica
FAMILY
Loganiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Spigelia marylandica
1451
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Moist to dry woodlands and forests, usually on circumneutral soils, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (rare in NC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Margins entire
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Red outside
(yellow inside)
Radially symmetrical
5 sepals
5-lobed tubular corolla
5 stamens
Bisexual
Flowers in a terminal one-sided (secund) cyme
FRUIT:
Summer
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p266
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p219
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p144
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p176
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962) p086
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p205
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p223
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p368
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p148
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p063
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p252
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p184
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p220
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011) p445
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p123
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