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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Triantha racemosa
FAMILY
Tofieldiaceae
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Learn more about Triantha from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Triantha racemosa
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Triantha racemosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Triantha racemosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 041-18-001a:
Tofieldia racemosa var. racemosa FAMILY Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Tofieldia racemosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Triantha racemosa
COMMON NAME:
Coastal Bog Asphodel, Southern Bog Asphodel, Coastal False Asphodel, Savanna Asphodel
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_trra6_001_lvd
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_tofieldia_racemosa_5
July
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_tofieldia_racemosa_7
July
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Will Stuart wil3741935991_dc46db82ff
July Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
Flowers in a terminal raceme, usually 2-6 per node, upper opening first, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).
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Will Stuart wil3742728286_2098b14c90
July Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
Oblong spreading tepals; stamens w flattened filaments & spherical anthers, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_t_racemosa_bogasphd2c
August
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JK Marlow jkm161001_839
September Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
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JK Marlow jkm161001_839b
September Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
Capsules ± equaling or slightly longer than tepals & ± enclosed by them, hard, per Flora of North America.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Triantha racemosa
FAMILY
Tofieldiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Triantha racemosa
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Triantha racemosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Triantha racemosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 041-18-001a:
Tofieldia racemosa var. racemosa
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Tofieldia racemosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Triantha racemosa
3003
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: pine savannas, pine savanna-pocosin ecotones, seepage bogs, sinkhole ponds (dolines) in the mountains of VA, acidic wet barrens, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal, the stem leaves rapidly reduced upward
FLOWER:
Summer
White
Radially symmetrical
6 tepals
6 stamens
Bisexual
Inflorescence a thyrse (pedicels attached in trifurcating clusters of 3-7)
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p162
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p267
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p321
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p380
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p173
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p182
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p161
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p420
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p369
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p424
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p182
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