Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Aniseroot 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 (11/30/12):
Osmorhiza longistylis
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Osmorhiza longistylis
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-08-002:
Osmorhiza longistylis
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISSPELLED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Osmorrhiza longistylis
COMMON NAME:
Aniseroot, Smooth Sweet Cicely, Longstyle Sweet-cicely
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Look for it in moist fertile forests, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common (rare in Coastal Plain, rare in GA Piedmont, uncommon in GA Mountains)
...Moist
LEAVES:
Complexly compound, with 2+ levels of pinnate and/or ternate compoundness
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring
White
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
Inferior ovary
Flowers in compound umbels
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Schizocarp of two mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p224
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p071
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p167
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p179
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p215
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p116
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