Native & Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas & Georgia

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3364

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas

Documented growing wild in - NC SC

Uncommon in NC, rare in SC

Look for it in moist hardwood forests, per Weakley's Flora

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...Moist

LEAVES:
Simple
Whorls of 4
Leaves sessile
Margins entire

FLOWER:
Summer
Yellowish, becoming maroon
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
Sepals usually obsolete
4-5 lobed rotate corolla

FRUIT:
Summer
Black, dry & bristly

 

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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Gentianales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
 Galium lanceolatum   FAMILY Rubiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Galium lanceolatum   FAMILY Rubiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 173-10-003:
 Galium lanceolatum   FAMILY Rubiaceae

 

COMMON NAME:
 Lanceleaf Wild Licorice

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image of Galium lanceolatum, Lanceleaf Wild Licorice

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_gala3_001_lvd