OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Commelinales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Lachnanthes caroliniana   FAMILY Haemodoraceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT- CORRECTABLE TYPOGRAPHIC ERROR) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lachnanthes caroliana   FAMILY Haemodoraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Lachnanthes caroliniana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26 (2002)

Lachnanthes caroliniana

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT- CORRECTABLE TYPOGRAPHIC ERROR) Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Lachnanthes caroliana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Lachnanthes caroliniana

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 045-01-001:

Lachnanthes caroliniana   FAMILY Haemodoraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Lachnanthes tinctoria

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Gyrotheca tinctoria

 

COMMON NAME:
Carolina Redroot


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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_gyti_001_lvd

        

image of Lachnanthes caroliniana, Carolina Redroot

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_laca5_003_lvd

        

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Alan S. Weakley    asw_548338150763472

April        FL

Apalachicola National Forest

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JK Marlow    jkm160416_217

April    Lowndes County    GA

Leaves distichous and bases overlapping (like Iris). Roots and rhizomes red, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

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JK Marlow    jkm160416_219

April    Lowndes County    GA

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Will Stuart    wil_9091111319_76e44f20b2

June    Chesterfield County    SC

Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge

A solitary, terminal, branching inflorescence of small, woolly 1/2" flowers, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

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Will Stuart    wil_9091124679_cf7393ce18

June    Chesterfield County    SC

Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge

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Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_l_caroliniana_18

July        

Stems distally whitish villous-tomentose when young, becoming tawny-hoary, per Flora of North America.

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Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_l_caroliniana_18b

July        

Tepals erect-spreading at anthesis, pale yellow, per Flora of North America.

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Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_l_caroliniana_18c

July        

Stamens spreading at anthesis; anthers yellow; style just exceeding anthers, per Flora of North America.

image of Lachnanthes caroliniana, Carolina Redroot

Sharleen Johnson    shj_4815312308484780

July    Charleston County    SC

Francis Marion National Forest

(Palamedes swallowtail)

image of Lachnanthes caroliniana, Carolina Redroot

Sharleen Johnson    shj_4815344505148227

July    Charleston County    SC

Francis Marion National Forest

image of Lachnanthes caroliniana, Carolina Redroot

Sharleen Johnson    shj_4815344581814886

July    Charleston County    SC

Francis Marion National Forest

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Lachnanthes caroliniana   FAMILY Haemodoraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT- CORRECTABLE TYPOGRAPHIC ERROR) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lachnanthes caroliana   FAMILY Haemodoraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Lachnanthes caroliniana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
Lachnanthes caroliniana

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT- CORRECTABLE TYPOGRAPHIC ERROR) Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Lachnanthes caroliana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Lachnanthes caroliniana

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 045-01-001:
Lachnanthes caroliniana   FAMILY Haemodoraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Lachnanthes tinctoria

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Gyrotheca tinctoria

 

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786

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Wet savannas, pocosin edges, shores of Coastal Plain depression ponds (and similar ponds in the mountains of Virginia), ditches, wet disturbed ground, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain

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LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal, with some reduced alternate

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomes slender, elongate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Creamy yellowish
6 persistent tepals
3 stamens
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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