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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!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p325
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p222
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p100
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p060
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p175
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p211
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p117
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p242
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