Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Magnoliids: Piperales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Asarum reflexum
FAMILY
Aristolochiaceae
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Learn more about Asarum from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Asarum canadense
FAMILY
Aristolochiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Asarum canadense
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America
Asarum canadense
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 062-02-001?:
Asarum canadense FAMILY Aristolochiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Asarum canadense var. reflexum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Asarum reflexum
COMMON NAME:
Reflexed Wild Ginger
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_asre10_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm120326_989
March McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
Leaves deciduous, membranous, pubescent, cordate to reniform, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Tim Spira tps_acanadense1
March
Flower solitary, arising between the petioles. Petioles villous, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm0504e_13
April McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm070407_080
April McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm170408_492
April Laurens County SC
Sumter National Forest: Tyger Ranger District
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Keith Bradley kab_asarum_canadense_2619
April Calhoun County SC
Congaree Bluffs Heritage Preserve
False calyx tube cylindric, externally hirsute (often densely), per Flora of North America.
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David Campbell mdc_a_reflexum
April Berkeley County SC
Floodplain
Calyx lobes reflexed, oft appressed against tube (but spreading or ascending as fruit develops), per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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David Campbell mdc_a_reflexum_habitat
May Laurens County SC
Floodplain
Plants spread both by seeds and by rhizomes, sometimes in dense carpets, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Asarum reflexum
FAMILY
Aristolochiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Asarum canadense
FAMILY
Aristolochiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Asarum canadense
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America
Asarum canadense
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 062-02-001?:
Asarum canadense
FAMILY
Aristolochiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Asarum canadense var. reflexum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Asarum reflexum
3675
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Rich deciduous forests in circumneutral soils, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Piedmont, uncommon in Mountains of GA & SC & in NC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Plant acaulescent (without aerial stems). Leaves alternate (may appear opposite
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomatous
FLOWER:
Spring
Maroon/ Brownish-purple
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
3-merous
3-lobed campanulate calyx
Petals absent, usually
12 stamens
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring
Capsule
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