NameThatPlant.net: Amianthium muscitoxicum

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Liliales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Amianthium muscitoxicum FAMILY Melanthiaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

This is one of several species that grow in forests that contain a cluster of fairly long, strap-shaped basal, parallel-veined leaves. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Amianthium muscitoxicum FAMILY Liliaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 041-21-001:

Amianthium muscaetoxicum FAMILY Liliaceae

COMMON NAME:
Fly-poison

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Amianthium muscitoxicum FAMILY Melanthiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Amianthium muscitoxicum FAMILY Liliaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 041-21-001:
Amianthium muscaetoxicum FAMILY Liliaceae

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: In a wide variety of mesic to dry forests, pine savannas, longleaf pine sandhills, meadows, from 5m to at least 1600m in elevation, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common

CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Radially symmetrical
6 persistent tepals
6 stamens
Ovary superior to partly inferior
Bisexual, or both bisexual & unisexual on the same or different plants

Inflorescence a raceme

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

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