2587

Forb
Perennial

Native to North Carolina
Documented growing wild in - NC -

Rare

Look for it in forests, on streambanks, per Weakley's Flora

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...Moist

LEAVES:
Evergreen
Ternately compound
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
Yellow
Radially symmetrical
5 united sepals
5 petals
50 stamens or more

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Aggregate of achenes

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p190?
• Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants p187?
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p027
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p124?
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p157?
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p071?

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Geum fragarioides   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Waldsteinia fragarioides ssp. fragarioides   FAMILY Rosaceae

LESS THAN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 097-03-001:
Waldsteinia fragarioides   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Waldsteinia fragarioides var. fragarioides

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Waldsteinia fragarioides