Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Apiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Taenidia integerrima
FAMILY
Apiaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Taenidia integerrima
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-13-001:
Taenidia integerrima
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Taenidia integerrima
COMMON NAME:
Yellow Pimpernel
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JK Marlow jkm120426_709
April Yancey County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm150424_681
April Blount County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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April Blount County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm150424_727
April Blount County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm120517_855
May Yancey County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Leaflets have consistently entire margins, which is uncommon in Apiaceae, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
COMPARE
leaves that resemble Thalictrum
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JK Marlow jkm120517_856
May Yancey County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm120517_858
May Yancey County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
A smooth, often glaucous, branched perennial 16-32" tall, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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JK Marlow jkm120517_876
May Yancey County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
The umbel is open, its slender primary rays up to 3" long and unequal, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm120517_876b
May Yancey County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Umbellets have fertile flowers around margin; inner flowers are male only, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Taenidia integerrima
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Taenidia integerrima
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-13-001:
Taenidia integerrima
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Taenidia integerrima
1482
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)
Habitat: In rocky, dry to dry-mesic forests and woodlands over mafic or calcareous rock, such as diabase, amphibolite, calcareous siltstone, calcareous shale, or limestone, per Weakley's Flora
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LEAVES:
Complexly compound, with 2+ levels of pinnate and/or ternate compoundness
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring
Yellow
5-merous
Inferior ovary
Flowers in compound umbels
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Schizocarp of two mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p226
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p113
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p257
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p181
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p217
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p117