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.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
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)
Thalesia uniflora
COMMON NAME:
One-flowered Cancer-root, One-flowered Broomrape
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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.
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.