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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Chelone glabra   FAMILY Plantaginaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Chelone glabra   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Chelone glabra

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-13-004:

Chelone glabra   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Chelone chlorantha

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Chelone glabra var. elongata

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Chelone glabra var. ochroleuca

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Chelone montana var. elatior

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Chelone montana var. montana

 

COMMON NAME:
White Turtlehead


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image of Chelone glabra, White Turtlehead

USDA Forest Service / A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia. 1969    mpa_page_085

        

image of Chelone glabra, White Turtlehead

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_chgl2_001_lvd

        

image of Chelone glabra, White Turtlehead

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_chgl2_005_lvd

        

image of Chelone glabra, White Turtlehead

JK Marlow    jkm0304d_03

April    Greenville County    SC

Creekside/Riverside

image of Chelone glabra, White Turtlehead

Keith Bradley    kab_chelone_glabra_2510

August    Hamilton County    NY

Adirondack State Park

image of Chelone glabra, White Turtlehead

JK Marlow    jkm0309n_06

September    Greenville County    SC

Creekside/Riverside

Leaves resemble C. obliqua but proportionately narrower; petioles under 1/2", per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Chelone glabra, White Turtlehead

JK Marlow    jkm0309n_07

September    Greenville County    SC

Creekside/Riverside

image of Chelone glabra, White Turtlehead

JK Marlow    jkm080927_007

September    Greenville County    SC

Flowers white, often tinged with pink or purple, in a dense terminal spike, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011).

image of Chelone glabra, White Turtlehead

Tim Spira    tps_cglabra5

September        

image of Chelone glabra, White Turtlehead

Diane Creaton    dmc071014_014a

October    Greenville County    SC

Pleasant Ridge County Park

image of Chelone glabra, White Turtlehead

JK Marlow    jkm0410a_21

October    Greenville County    SC

Creekside/Riverside

image of Chelone glabra, White Turtlehead

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_chelone_glabra_4

October        

image of Chelone glabra, White Turtlehead

JK Marlow    s071006_a

October    Greenville County    SC

image of Chelone glabra, White Turtlehead

JK Marlow    s071006_a2

October    Greenville County    SC

Filaments of the fertile stamens are lanose to pubescent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Chelone glabra, White Turtlehead

JK Marlow    s071006_b

October    Greenville County    SC

image of Chelone glabra, White Turtlehead

JK Marlow    s071006_b2

October    Greenville County    SC

Staminode is green, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Chelone glabra   FAMILY Plantaginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Chelone glabra   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Chelone glabra

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-13-004:
Chelone glabra   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chelone chlorantha

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chelone glabra var. elongata

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chelone glabra var. ochroleuca

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chelone montana var. elatior

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chelone montana var. montana

 

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312

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Streambanks, seeps, swamp forests, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (rare in GA Coastal Plain)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White & rose or purplish
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
2-lipped corolla
4 fertile included stamens (2 long, 2 short) & 1 sterile with green filament
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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