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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Triosteum perfoliatum
FAMILY
Caprifoliaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Perfoliate Horse-gentian at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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).
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
1891
Forb
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Uncommon
Look for it in woodlands & forests in circumneutral soils, particularly those over mafic or calcareous rocks, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Red/ Brownish-red/ Greenish-yellow
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed tubular corolla
5 stamens
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Red/ Reddish-orange
Drupe
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p256
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p364
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p100
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p268
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p311
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p167