Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Liliales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Stenanthium leimanthoides
FAMILY
Melanthiaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Stenanthium from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Zigadenus leimanthoides
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 041-22-004:
Zigadenus leimanthoides
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Oceanorus leimanthoides
COMMON NAME:
Pinebarrens Death-camas
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_ocle2_001_lvd
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmzleimanthoides_0
Month Unknown
Flowers in a dense panicle tipped with a 3-4" raceme, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmzliemanthoides_2
Month Unknown
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Stenanthium leimanthoides
FAMILY
Melanthiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Zigadenus leimanthoides
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 041-22-004:
Zigadenus leimanthoides
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Oceanorus leimanthoides
2370
Forb
Perennial
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC -
Rare
Look for it on high elevation rock outcrops, shrub balds, seepage areas at high elevations, in Coastal Plain in sandhill bogs & wet pine savannas, 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.
...Wet
...Moist
LEAVES:
Simple
Usually basal
FLOWER:
Summer
White
Usually bisexual
Radially symmetrical
6 persistent tepals
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!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p165
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p032
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p372
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p436
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p015