Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Aphyllon uniflorum
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read how One-flowered Broomrape from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Read more about One-flowered Cancer-root at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Orobanche uniflora
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 169-03-001:
Orobanche uniflora
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Thalesia uniflora
COMMON NAME:
One-flowered Cancer-root, One-flowered Broomrape
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_thun3_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm060429_090
April Macon County NC
Nantahala National Forest: Wayah Ranger District
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JK Marlow jkm160422_063
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm160422_064
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm110507_276
May Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
Corolla tubular & slightly curved, 3/4" long, with 5 spreading lobes, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm110507_280
May Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
Leaves are brown overlapping scales at base of naked flower stalk (scape), per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Keith Bradley kab_o_uniflora_73576
May Transylvania County NC
Nantahala National Forest
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Aphyllon uniflorum
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Orobanche uniflora
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 169-03-001:
Orobanche uniflora
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Thalesia uniflora
991
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Uncommon in NC (but common in NC Mtns), rare in GA-SC (but uncommon in GA Mtns)
Look for it in a wide diversity of forests, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Moist
LEAVES:
FLOWER:
Spring
Whitish
5-lobed cupulate-to-campanulate calyx
5-lobed tubular-salverform corolla
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring
Brown
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p067
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p182
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p172
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p093
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p094
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p232
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p251
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p294
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p162