NameThatPlant.net: Schwalbea americana

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Schwalbea americana FAMILY Orobanchaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about American Chaffseed at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Schwalbea americana FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-27-001:

Schwalbea americana FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

COMMON NAME:
American Chaffseed

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Schwalbea americana FAMILY Orobanchaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Schwalbea americana FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-27-001:
Schwalbea americana FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

1941

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: pine savannas, sandhill-pocosin ecotones (in the uphill portions), mesic loamy-soil slopes or swales in sandhill longleaf pine woodlands, fire-maintained interior woodlands and barrens, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Rare

CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellowish suffused with pinkish-purple
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped tubular calyx
2-lipped tubular corolla
4 included stamens (2 long, 2 short)
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule

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