OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Nabalus trifoliolatus   FAMILY Asteraceae_   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Prenanthes trifoliolata   FAMILY Asteraceae_

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

Nabalus trifoliolatus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Prenanthes trifoliolata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Prenanthes trifoliolata

INCLUDING VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-06-002b & 003:

Prenanthes trifoliolata   FAMILY Asteraceae_

INCLUDING (NOT VALIDLY PUBLISHED) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968)

Prenanthes alba ssp. pallida

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

Nabalus trifoliatus

 

COMMON NAME:
Gall-of-the-earth, Three-leaved Rattlesnake-root


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image of Nabalus trifoliolatus, Gall-of-the-earth, Three-leaved Rattlesnake-root

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_natr_001_lvd

        

image of Nabalus trifoliolatus, Gall-of-the-earth, Three-leaved Rattlesnake-root

Keith Bradley    kab_n_trifoliolatus_2467

August    Coos County    NH

Mount Washington State Park

Involucre smooth with 7-9 principal bracts and 9-13 ray flowers per head, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).


click here to see other plants that look similar to this COMPARE involucral bracts of Rattlesnake-root

image of Nabalus trifoliolatus, Gall-of-the-earth, Three-leaved Rattlesnake-root

Keith Bradley    kab_n_trifoliolatus_2475

August    Coos County    NH

Mount Washington State Park

image of Nabalus trifoliolatus, Gall-of-the-earth, Three-leaved Rattlesnake-root

JK Marlow    jkm0509j_19

September    Transylvania County    NC

Silver Run Preserve

image of Nabalus trifoliolatus, Gall-of-the-earth, Three-leaved Rattlesnake-root

Tim Spira    tpsptrifoliata

Month Unknown        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Nabalus trifoliolatus   FAMILY Asteraceae_

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Prenanthes trifoliolata   FAMILY Asteraceae_

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Prenanthes trifoliolata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Prenanthes trifoliolata

INCLUDING VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-06-002b & 003:
Prenanthes trifoliolata   FAMILY Asteraceae_

INCLUDING (NOT VALIDLY PUBLISHED) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968)
Prenanthes alba ssp. pallida

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Nabalus trifoliatus

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

1154

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: forests, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in NC Mountains, uncommon in NC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, reduced upward

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellowish-white, pale pink
Disc: Absent
Inferior ovary
Ray flowers bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Reddish-brown
Achene

 

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