Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Apiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sium suave
FAMILY
Apiaceae
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Read more about Hemlock Water-parsnip at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sium suave
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Sium suave
INCLUDING Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Sium suave
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-27-001:
Sium suave FAMILY Apiaceae
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sium cicutaefolium
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sium floridanum
COMMON NAME:
Hemlock Water-parsnip
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_sici2_001_lhd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_sisu2_002_lvd
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_sium_suave1
July Moore County NC
Leaflets 7-17, finely toothed (vs. Oxypolis rigidior 5-9 and mostly entire, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
COMPARE
pinnately compound leaves of forbs
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sium suave
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sium suave
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Sium suave
INCLUDING
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Sium suave
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-27-001:
Sium suave
FAMILY
Apiaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sium cicutaefolium
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sium floridanum
3116
Emergent aquatic (rooted); Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Freshwater marshes, brackish marshes, swamp forests, in tidally or seasonally flooded hydrology, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Pinnately compound
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer
White
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
Inferior ovary
Flowers in compound umbels
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of two mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p152
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p103
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p181
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p216
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