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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read about Bear Corn from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Read more about Squawroot at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Conopholis americana
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Conopholis americana
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 169-02-001:
Conopholis americana
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
COMMON NAME:
Squawroot, Bearcorn
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_coam_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm080322_023
March Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
Just emerging...
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Keith Bradley kab_c_americana_2603
March Orangeburg County SC
Santee State Park
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Mark A. Musselman mam_squawroot032406g
March Dorchester County SC
Audubon Center at Francis Beidler Forest
Stamens exserted, usually 4, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_c_americana_3_24_07_2
March Walker County GA
Pigeon Mountain
Leaves overlapping, brown, fleshy, scaly, and lacking chlorophyll, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Wesley Burnett gwb361_0307
April McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
Usually several stems in a tight cluster, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
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Harry Davis hld361_fal_001d
April Greenville County SC
Jones Gap State Park
A 1/2" whitish 2-lipped flower projects from the stem above each bract, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm0504f_16
April McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
This parasitic herb often found at the foot of oak trees, per Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition.
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JK Marlow jkm160426_590
April Polk County NC
Pearson's Falls
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JK Marlow jkm060508_001
May Macon County NC
Nantahala National Forest: Wayah Ranger District
Stem is yellow, turning brownish with age, covered with scaly bracts, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Keith Bradley kab_c_americana_7835
May NC
Blue Ridge Parkway