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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Nothoscordum bivalve
FAMILY
Alliaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Nothoscordum from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Nothoscordum bivalve
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 041-35-008:
Allium bivalve
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Nothoscordum bivalve
COMMON NAME:
False Garlic, Grace Garlic
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_nobi2_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm120326_013
March McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
The 6 tepals, about 0.5" long, are spreading and white, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
COMPARE
False Garlic and Star-of-Bethlehem
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Keith Bradley kab_n_bivalve_3775
March Lancaster County SC
Forty Acre Rock Heritage Preserve
Scapes erect, terminated by membranous spathes and umbels of perfect flowers, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_n_bivalve_3
March
Stamens are about 2/3 the length of the tepals, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm0504f_09
April McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
Inflorescence a loose terminal umbel, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm080427_015
April Pickens County SC
granite outcrop
Leaves basal, linear, flat, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC.
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JK Marlow jkm080428_051
April Pickens County SC
A perennial plant from a small onion-like bulb without an onion-like odor, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC.
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JK Marlow jkm170401_449
April McCormick County SC
Roadside
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JK Marlow jkm220421_7141
April Pickens County SC
Nine Times Preserve
The 6 tepals sometimes have a green or purple midrib on the back, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmnbivalve_mcc2
April McCormick County SC
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Nothoscordum bivalve
FAMILY
Alliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Nothoscordum bivalve
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 041-35-008:
Allium bivalve
FAMILY
Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Nothoscordum bivalve
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Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common (rare in Mountains of SC)
Look for it around granite flatrocks, in glades and barrens of various kinds, in open woodlands, and also weedy in fields and along roadsides, 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
Basal (usually present at flowering)
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
White
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
6 tepals in two whorls of 3
6 stamens
Superior ovary
Flowers in umbels
FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p369
- Guide to the Plants of Granite Outcrops p03
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p169
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p195
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p163
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p365
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p420
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p012