2855

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Uncommon (rare in SC)

Look for it - it's locally abundant in wet savannas, pocosin margins, usually in peaty soil, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet

LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White/Cream
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
6 tepals
(6-) 9 (-12) stamens

FRUIT:
Fall
Capsule

 

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

• Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p030

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Alismatales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Pleea tenuifolia   FAMILY Tofieldiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pleea tenuifolia   FAMILY Liliaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 041-19-001:
Pleea tenuifolia   FAMILY Liliaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Pleea tenuifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Genera of Tofieldiaceae in the southeastern US (Zomlefer, 1996)
Tofieldia tenuifolia