Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Magnoliids: Piperales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hexastylis arifolia
FAMILY
Aristolochiaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Hexastylis from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hexastylis arifolia var. arifolia
FAMILY
Aristolochiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Hexastylis arifolia var. arifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH New combinations in North American Asarum (Aristolochiaceae) (Barringer, 1993)
Asarum arifolium var. arifolium
SYNONYMOUS WITH A review of the taxonomy and biogeography of Hexastylis (Aristolochiaceae) (Gaddy, 1987)
Hexastylis arifolia var. arifolia
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 062-03-001:
Hexastylis arifolia FAMILY Aristolochiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Asarum arifolium
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hexastylis arifolia
COMMON NAME:
Little Brown Jug, Arrowhead Heartleaf, Arrowleaf Heartleaf, Pigs
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Steve Marlow snm079801_36
January Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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JK Marlow jkm0303l_22
March Oconee County SC
Oconee Station/Station Cove
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JK Marlow jkm070407_052
April McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm070407_054
April McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
Leaves mottled - the paler areas *between* the veins, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm080430_011
April Pickens County SC
Calyx tube may be ovoid with short erect lobes, per A Review of the Taxonomy & Biogeography of Hexastylis, Aristolochiaceae (Gaddy, 1987).
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JK Marlow jkm080430_013
April Pickens County SC
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JK Marlow jkm080430_018
April Pickens County SC
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JK Marlow jkm080430_026
April Pickens County SC
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JK Marlow jkm080430_032
April Pickens County SC
Calyx tube may be urceolate-campanulate with spreading lobes, per A Review of the Taxonomy & Biogeography of Hexastylis, Aristolochiaceae (Gaddy, 1987).
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JK Marlow jkm080430_037
April Pickens County SC
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JK Marlow jkm080430_038
April Pickens County SC
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JK Marlow jkm090425_046
April Pickens County SC
Nine Times Preserve
Calyx gradually contracted to a smooth waist just below calyx lobes, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm090426_011
April Pickens County SC
Portions of the sides of nearly all leaves straight or concave, per Weakley's Flora.
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Keith Bradley kab_h_arifolia_2629
April Calhoun County SC
Congaree Bluffs Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm210516_0349
May Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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Tim Spira tpsharifolia4
May
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JK Marlow jkm210903_3306
September Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
Leaf triangular, ovate-sagittate or subhastate, basal lobes ~1/3 leaf length, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow s071018_cd
October Anderson County SC
Clemson Forest
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hexastylis arifolia
FAMILY
Aristolochiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hexastylis arifolia var. arifolia
FAMILY
Aristolochiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Hexastylis arifolia var. arifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
New combinations in North American Asarum (Aristolochiaceae) (Barringer, 1993)
Asarum arifolium var. arifolium
SYNONYMOUS WITH
A review of the taxonomy and biogeography of Hexastylis (Aristolochiaceae) (Gaddy, 1987)
Hexastylis arifolia var. arifolia
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 062-03-001:
Hexastylis arifolia
FAMILY
Aristolochiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Asarum arifolium
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hexastylis arifolia
674
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: In a wide variety of dry to mesic forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common
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LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple
Plant acaulescent (without aerial stems). Leaves alternate, 2-ranked
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomatous
FLOWER:
Spring
Pale purplish/ Purplish-brown
Bisexual
3-merous
3-lobed calyx gradually contracted to a smooth waist just below the calyx lobes
Petals absent
12 stamens
FRUIT:
Spring
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p175
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p225
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p110
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p138
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962) p054
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p187
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p475
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p136
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p002
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest: Northeastern US (Clemants & Gracie, 2006) p260
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p043
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011) p386
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p031
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p152