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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Dipsacales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Triosteum perfoliatum
FAMILY
Caprifoliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Triosteum perfoliatum
FAMILY
Caprifoliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 174-04-001:
Triosteum perfoliatum
FAMILY
Caprifoliaceae
COMMON NAME:
Perfoliate Horse-gentian, Perfoliate Tinker's-weed, Wild Coffee, Feverwort
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_trpe5_001_lvd
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_triosteum_perfoliatum
May
Herbage soft gray-hairy. Flowers purplish-red or greenish-yellow, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_t_perfoliatum_horseg2
June
Leaves primarily connate-perfoliate, the joined base 3-9cm wide, per Weakley's Flora (2015).