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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Schwalbea americana
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about American Chaffseed at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Schwalbea americana
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-27-001:
Schwalbea americana
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Schwalbea australis
COMMON NAME:
American Chaffseed
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_scam_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm060423_132b
April SC
Francis Marion National Forest
Leaf size decreases from the base of the stem upwards, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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JK Marlow jkm0505s_30
May Williamsburg County SC
Tubular 1" flowers are born along the upper 1/2-1/3 of the stem, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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JK Marlow jkm0505s_31
May Williamsburg County SC
Calyx tubular, 2-lipped, lips unequal, subtended by 2 linear bractlets, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmsamericana_halfway
May Berkeley County SC
Francis Marion National Forest
Leaves lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, entire, sessile, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmsamericana_steedfrt
May Berkeley County SC
Francis Marion National Forest
The narrow fruit is enclosed in a saclike structure, hence the common name, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Schwalbea americana
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Schwalbea americana
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-27-001:
Schwalbea americana
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Schwalbea australis
1941
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Rare
Look for it in savannas, sandhill-pocosin ecotones (in the uphill portions), mesic loamy-soil slopes or swales in sandhill longleaf pine woodlands, fire-maintained interior woodlands and barrens, 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
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellowish suffused with pinkish-purple
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped tubular calyx
2-lipped tubular corolla
4 included stamens (2 long, 2 short)
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p236
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p249
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p046
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p166
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p085