Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Ranunculales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Trautvetteria caroliniensis
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Carolina Tassel-rue from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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
COMMON NAME:
Carolina Tassel-rue, Carolina Bugbane, False Bugbane
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JK Marlow jkm190413_7346
April Rabun County GA
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JK Marlow jkm0205j_21
May Rutherford County NC
Chimney Rock Park
Principal leaves up to 8" wide, palmately cleft into 5-11 segments, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Keith Bradley kab_t_caroliniensis_9848
June Buncombe County NC
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JK Marlow jkm060716_054
July Rutherford County NC
Chimney Rock Park
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JK Marlow jkm060716_063
July Rutherford County NC
Chimney Rock Park
Flowers 0.5" wide, with numerous white stamens in a corymbiform cluster, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm060716_066
July Rutherford County NC
Chimney Rock Park
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JK Marlow jkm160919_037
September Polk County NC
Pearson's Falls
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
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
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
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 the Atlantic Southeast p216
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p043
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p064
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p050