...Moist
...Dry
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Ceanothus americanus +
FAMILY
Rhamnaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ceanothus americanus
FAMILY
Rhamnaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 119-02-001:
Ceanothus americanus
FAMILY
Rhamnaceae
COMMON NAME:
New Jersey Tea, Redroot
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_ceam_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / US Forest Service pnd_ceam_004_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm0405w_37
May Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
Flower clusters are terminal or arise from leaf axils on stalks 2-10" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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Steve Marlow snm160531_104
May Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
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Steve Marlow snm160531_104b
May Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
Flowers have 5 hooded petals, each with a 1mm blade & a narrow 1mm long claw, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm160605_913
June Greenville County SC
Low rounded shrub, to ~ 3' tall, that often has the aspect of a bushy herb, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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JK Marlow jkm190604_8982
June Greenville County SC
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_c_americanus_6
June
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JK Marlow s080611_a
June Greenville County SC
Lake Conestee Nature Park
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JK Marlow jkm100702_090
July Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm100702_100
July Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Fruits are fleshy three-lobed capsules, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm100702_101
July Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Leaves are 3-nerved from the base, per Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_c_americanus_1
August
Flower clusters cylindric to egg-shaped, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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JK Marlow jkm0410n_32b
October Oconee County SC
Roadside
Seeds have been dispersed; the little "cups" left behind are the hypanthia.
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JK Marlow jkm101120_255
November Greenville County SC
Lake Conestee Nature Park