Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Appalachian False Goatsbeard from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Saxifragales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Astilbe biternata
FAMILY
Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Astilbe biternata
FAMILY
Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 094-07-001:
Astilbe biternata
FAMILY
Saxifragaceae
COMMON NAME:
Appalachian False Goatsbeard
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Look for it in cove forests, on seepage slopes, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common in Carolina Mtns, uncommon in GA Mtns, rare elsewhere (an endemic)
...Moist
LEAVES:
Complexly compound, with 2+ levels of pinnate and/or ternate compoundness
Basal & alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Bisexual or unisexual
Radially symmetrical
5 persistent sepals
5 petals (or petals absent in pistillate flowers)
8-10 stamens
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
A partly fused 2-locular capsule or separate as 2 follicles
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p110
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p023
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p103
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p116
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p139
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p067
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