Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Saxifragales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Heuchera parviflora var. parviflora
FAMILY
Saxifragaceae
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Learn more about Alumroot from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
In deeply shaded sites, Heuchera parviflora var. parviflora is often the only vascular plant present. Read more in Weakley's Flora (2023).
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Heuchera parviflora var. parviflora
FAMILY
Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Heuchera parviflora var. parviflora
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America
Heuchera parviflora var. parviflora
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Heuchera parviflora var. parviflora
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 094-11-002:
Heuchera parviflora FAMILY Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Heuchera parviflora
COMMON NAME:
Littleflower Alumroot, Cave Alumroot, Cumberland Grotto Alumroot, Small-flower Alumroot
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JK Marlow jkm0504r_01
April Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
The small, sharply toothed, rounded leaves have gently cut lobes, per All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999).
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JK Marlow jkm0504r_02
April Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
Heuchera usually has leaves as wide as long and with prominent variegation, per Weakley's Flora (2020).
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JK Marlow jkm190423_7648
April Oconee County SC
Jocassee Gorges
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JK Marlow jkm190423_7651
April Oconee County SC
Jocassee Gorges
Uncommon throughout its range, per Weakley's Flora.
COMPARE
Alumroot, Foamflower, and Miterwort
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Ron Lance rwl670_a
September
In deeply shaded sites, it is often the only vascular plant present, per Weakley's Flora.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_heuchera_parviflora
November
The tiny white flowers are in multiple branched racemes, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Heuchera parviflora var. parviflora
FAMILY
Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Heuchera parviflora var. parviflora
FAMILY
Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Heuchera parviflora var. parviflora
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America
Heuchera parviflora var. parviflora
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Heuchera parviflora var. parviflora
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 094-11-002:
Heuchera parviflora
FAMILY
Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Heuchera parviflora
670
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Shaded cliff bases, usually under overhangs, on grotto floors, behind waterfalls where humidity is high but not in the spray zone, in rockhouses of the Cumberland Plateau, nearly always in deeply shaded situations where little or no direct sunlight falls, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Rare
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Calyx white-hairy; petals pink
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5 petals (usually)
5 stamens
Ovary half-inferior
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p174
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p102
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p143
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p024
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p325
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p109
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p139
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011) p385
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p066
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