Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Cicuta at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Apiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Cicuta maculata var. maculata
FAMILY
Apiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cicuta maculata var. maculata
FAMILY
Apiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-28-001:
Cicuta maculata
FAMILY
Apiaceae
COMMON NAME:
Water Hemlock, Spotted Cowbane
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Look for it in marshes, bogs, seepages, ditches, swamp forests, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
LEAVES:
Complexly compound, with 2+ levels of pinnate and/or ternate compoundness
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
Inferior ovary
Flowers in compound umbels
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of two mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
Cicuta maculata var. maculata FAMILY Apiaceae
Water Hemlock, Spotted Cowbane
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Cicuta at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Frank Bridges fab_cicuta_stem
July Cobb County GA
Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area
Stem smooth, sometimes streaked with purple, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
JK Marlow jkm060717_004
July Greenville County SC
Roadside/creekside
Tiny white flowers borne in compound umbels 2-5" wide, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
JK Marlow jkm060717_014
July Greenville County SC
Roadside/creekside
Rays 15-30+. Involucel bractlets [of the umbellets] 6-9, linear-lanceolate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
JK Marlow jkm0308d_37
August Greenville County SC
Roadside/creekside
A tall branching plant common in wet places, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
JK Marlow jkm160818_600
August Polk County NC
Pearson's Falls
The veins of the leaflets end at notches (in Angelica they do not), per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
COMPARE
leaves of American Lovage, Hairy Angelica and Water Hemlock
JK Marlow jkm160919_032
September Polk County NC
Pearson's Falls
Fruit plane or weakly ridged at the juncture of the mericarps, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.