1526

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common in Mountains of GA & NC, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC

Look for it on streambanks, seepages, grassy balds, moist forests, swamp forests, very rarely in calcareous longleaf pine savanna ecotones, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet ...Moist

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate & basal

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
3-5 sepals
Petals absent
Numerous stamens
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer
Aggregate of achenes

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p125
• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p420
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p043
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p064
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p050

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Ranunculales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Trautvetteria caroliniensis   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Trautvetteria caroliniensis var. caroliniensis   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN & ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 076-14-001:
Trautvetteria carolinensis   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN & ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Trautvetteria carolinensis