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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hexastylis virginica
FAMILY
Aristolochiaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Hexastylis from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hexastylis virginica
FAMILY
Aristolochiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Asarum chueyi (Aristolochiaceae), a new species from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Tennessee and Virginia, USA (Sinn, 2015)
Asarum virginicum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 3 (1997)
Hexastylis virginica
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Hexastylis virginica
SYNONYMOUS WITH A review of the taxonomy and biogeography of Hexastylis (Aristolochiaceae) (Gaddy, 1987)
Hexastylis virginica
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 062-03-003:
Hexastylis virginica FAMILY Aristolochiaceae
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hexastylis memmingeri
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hexastylis virginica
COMMON NAME:
Virginia Heartleaf
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_heme7_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_hevi3_001_lvd
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_h_virginica_13
May Iredell County NC
Leaves mottled or unmottled, if mottled, the paler areas along the veins, per Weakley's Flora.
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_h_virginica_40
May Iredell County NC
Leaves rounded, with cordate base, all portions of the sides convex, per Weakley's Flora.
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_h_virginica_41
May Iredell County NC
Calyx lobes 2-4mm long, erect to slightly spreading, per A Review of the Taxonomy & Biogeography of Hexastylis, Aristolochiaceae (Gaddy, 1987).
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_h_virginica_41b
May Iredell County NC
Calyx tube cylindrical to narrowly cylindro-urceolate, per A Review of the Taxonomy & Biogeography of Hexastylis, Aristolochiaceae (Gaddy, 1987).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hexastylis virginica
FAMILY
Aristolochiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hexastylis virginica
FAMILY
Aristolochiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Asarum chueyi (Aristolochiaceae), a new species from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Tennessee and Virginia, USA (Sinn, 2015)
Asarum virginicum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 3
Hexastylis virginica
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Hexastylis virginica
SYNONYMOUS WITH
A review of the taxonomy and biogeography of Hexastylis (Aristolochiaceae) (Gaddy, 1987)
Hexastylis virginica
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 062-03-003:
Hexastylis virginica
FAMILY
Aristolochiaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hexastylis memmingeri
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hexastylis virginica
681
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Upland forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Common in NC Mountains, uncommon in NC Piedmont
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LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple
Plant acaulescent (without aerial stems). Leaves alternate, 2-ranked
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomatous
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Pale purplish/ Purplish-brown
3-merous
3-lobed cylindrical to narrowly cylindro-urceolate calyx tube
Petals absent
12 stamens
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p176
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p477
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest: Northeastern US (Clemants & Gracie, 2006) p260
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p028
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p047
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p031
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