Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Liliales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Zigadenus glaberrimus
FAMILY
Melanthiaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Zigadenus from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Zigadenus glaberrimus
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 041-22-001:
Zigadenus glaberrimus
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Zygadenus glaberrimus
COMMON NAME:
Large Death Camas, Snakeroot, Sandbog Death-camas, Bog Death Camas
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmzglaberrimus_dogswamp
July Berkeley County SC
Francis Marion National Forest
Two conspicuous golden glandular dots at the base of each tepal, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Zigadenus glaberrimus
FAMILY
Melanthiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Zigadenus glaberrimus
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 041-22-001:
Zigadenus glaberrimus
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Zygadenus glaberrimus
2369
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common (an endemic)
Look for it in sandhill seepage bogs, pine savannas, pocosin edges, 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
Usually basal
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Creamy-white
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
6 tepals, often connate basally
6 stamens
Ovary partly inferior
Inflorescence a panicle
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p145
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p165
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p184
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p184