Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read about Hepatica and Anemone from Alan Weakley and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Learn more about Sharp-lobed Hepatica from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Ranunculales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/30/18):
Hepatica acutiloba
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hepatica nobilis var. acuta
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of Virginia (Weakley, Ludwig & Townsend, 2012)
Anemone acutiloba
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 076-15-001:
Hepatica acutiloba
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Hepatica acuta
COMMON NAME:
Sharp-lobed Hepatica, Sharp-lobed Liverleaf
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Ben Geer Keys bgk660_a
March
Flowers solitary on elongate, hairy stalks, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC.
JK Marlow jkm0303l_07
March Oconee County SC
Oconee Station/Station Cove
Old leaves present at early flowering; new leaves develop later, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC.
JK Marlow jkm080316_022
March Oconee County SC
Oconee Station/Station Cove
Flowers are subtended by 3 green bracts with pointed tips, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
JK Marlow jkm140322_349
March Oconee County SC
Oconee Station/Station Cove
Fruit an aggregate of achenes, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
fruits that are an aggregate of achenes
JK Marlow jkm150322_913
March Pickens County SC
Nine Times Preserve
Flowers solitary on elongate, villous or pilose scapes, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_hepatica_acutiloba_5
March
The 5-12 petal-like sepals are white, pink, lavender, purple or blue, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
JK Marlow jkm140418_366
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Deformed leaves with a rust fungus.
JK Marlow jkm0409e_02
September Oconee County SC
Oconee Station/Station Cove
Three-lobed evergreen leaves w sharply pointed tips, hence the common name, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont.
COMPARE
Hepatica species