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Common Name: Mapleleaf Alumroot, Hairy Alumroot, Rock Alumroot, Crag-jangle
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Heuchera villosa FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Heuchera villosa var. villosa FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Heuchera villosa 094-11-001 FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: In crevices of rock outcrops, or in thin soil over boulders, a characteristic component of the flora of high elevation cliffs and summits (to at least 1920 m), not particular about the rock type, occurring on a wide range of rock types in our area, including felsic gneisses and schists, mafic gneisses, granites, quartzites, and others, probably the most acidophilic of our taxa of Heuchera
Common (rare in Piedmont of GA & SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Littleflower Alumroot, Cave Alumroot, Cumberland Grotto Alumroot, Small-flower Alumroot
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Heuchera parviflora var. parviflora FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Heuchera parviflora var. parviflora FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Heuchera parviflora 094-11-002 FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
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
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: American Alumroot
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Heuchera americana FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Heuchera americana var. americana FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Heuchera americana 094-11-003 FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Rocky forests, rock outcrops, particularly where soils are subacidic to circumneutral
Common (uncommon to rare in Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Purple Alumroot, Hispid Alumroot
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Heuchera hispida FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Heuchera americana var. hispida FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Heuchera americana 094-11-003? FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Calcareous rocky forests, rock outcrops, particularly where soils are subacidic to circumneutral
Rare
Native to North Carolina
Common Name: Carolina Alumroot
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Heuchera caroliniana FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Heuchera caroliniana FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Heuchera americana 094-11-003? FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Rocky forests, rock outcrops, particularly where soils are subacidic to circumneutral, replacing H. americana in much of the upper Piedmont
Uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains
Native to the Carolinas
Common Name: Marbled Alumroot, Downy Alumroot
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Heuchera pubescens FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Heuchera pubescens FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Rocky forests, rock outcrops, particularly where soils are subacidic or circumneutral
Rare
Native to the Carolinas
Common Name: Mapleleaf Alumroot, longflower alumroot
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Heuchera aceroides FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Heuchera longiflora FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
(?) SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Heuchera longiflora var. aceroides 094-11-005? FAMILY: Saxifragaceae
Habitat: Shaded calcareous or basic cliffs
Rare
Native to North Carolina
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