Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Saxifragales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Penthorum sedoides
FAMILY
Penthoraceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Ditch Stonecrop from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Penthorum sedoides
FAMILY
Crassulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 091-02-001:
Penthorum sedoides
FAMILY
Crassulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Penthorum sedoides
COMMON NAME:
Ditch Stonecrop, American Penthorum
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_pese6_001_lvd
Sometimes included in the Saxifragaceae, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_pese6_005_lvd
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_penthorum_sedoides
July Catawba County NC
Terminal cymes 1-3" long bear secund rows of greenish flowers, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm170923_0567
September Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
Note the angular carpels and their spreading beaks [pistils], per www.illinoiswildflowers.info.
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JK Marlow jkm170923_0569
September Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
Leaves narrow, lanceolate, with finely toothed margins. Not succulent, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Penthorum sedoides
FAMILY
Penthoraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Penthorum sedoides
FAMILY
Crassulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 091-02-001:
Penthorum sedoides
FAMILY
Crassulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Penthorum sedoides
2234
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Look for it on shores, drawdown areas, moist forests, floodplain forests, moist disturbed areas, ditches, 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
Leaves sessile or short-petiolate
Margins serrate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Greenish
Bisexual
5(-7) sepals
5(-7) inconspicuous petals or petals absent
10 stamens
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p124
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p112
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p067