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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (2/8/20):
Melampyrum lineare
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
Go to FSUS key
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read What Cow? What Wheat? from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Read more about Cow-wheat at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Melampyrum lineare var. latifolium
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database
Melampyrum lineare var. lineare
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-30-001:
Melampyrum lineare FAMILY Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Melampyrum lineare var. americanum
INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Melampyrum lineare var. latifolium
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Melampyrum lineare
COMMON NAME:
Cow-wheat
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_mela6_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm060508_227
May Macon County NC
Nantahala National Forest: Wayah Ranger District
Whitish flowers with a yellow tip; grows in dry woods, per Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977).
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JK Marlow jkm060508_308
May Macon County NC
Nantahala National Forest: Wayah Ranger District
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JK Marlow jkm060508_331
May Macon County NC
Nantahala National Forest: Wayah Ranger District
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JK Marlow jkm120517_108
May Yancey County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm150509_008
May Dawson County GA
Dawson Forest WMA
Leaves quite variable, linear to ovate-lanceolate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Dan Whitten sdw_cowwheat
May Swain County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Corolla 2-lipped: upper lip hooded, lower lip with a yellow palate, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm0407m_11
July Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm0407m_14
July Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm060710_154
July Tucker County WV
Monongahela National Forest
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JK Marlow jkm080913_040
September Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_m_lineare_lati_s
September
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (2/8/20):
Melampyrum lineare
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Melampyrum lineare var. latifolium
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS National Database
Melampyrum lineare var. lineare
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-30-001:
Melampyrum lineare
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDING
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Melampyrum lineare var. americanum
INCLUDING
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Melampyrum lineare var. latifolium
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Melampyrum lineare
2072
Forb
Annual
Habitat: Dry rocky or sandy soils, including ridgetop woodlands, heath balds, sandy areas in the Coastal Plain from e. VA northwards, and in thin soils around rock outcrops (especially on granitic domes in the Blue Ridge south of the Asheville Basin), per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Click here to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
(with a yellow tip)
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
4-lobed calyx
2-lipped corolla
4 included stamens
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p076
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p224
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p093
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p273
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p242
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p287
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p157