Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Honewort at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Apiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Cryptotaenia canadensis
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cryptotaenia canadensis
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-21-001:
Cryptotaenia canadensis
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Deringa canadensis
COMMON NAME:
Honewort
Click or hover over the thumbnails to see larger pictures.
JK Marlow jkm140614_819b
June Rabun County GA
Chattahoochee National Forest
Small flowers in loose, irregular, compound umbels, a few in each umbellet, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
Gill Newberry gn07_cryptotaenia_lvs
July
Leaves have 3 sharply and irregularly toothed (often lobed) leaflets, per Newcomb's Wildflower Guide.
JK Marlow jkm100730_249b
July Jackson County NC
Balsam Mountain Preserve
Fruit two attached seedlike mericarps, linear-oblong, 4-7mm long, glabrous, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.