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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Spigelia marilandica   FAMILY Loganiaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spigelia marilandica   FAMILY Loganiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 154-02-001:

Spigelia marilandica   FAMILY Loganiaceae

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

Spigelia marylandica

 

COMMON NAME:
Indian-pink, Woodland Pinkroot, Wormgrass


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USDA Forest Service / A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia. 1969    mpa_page_241

        

image of Spigelia marilandica, Indian-pink, Woodland Pinkroot, Wormgrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_spma3_001_lvd

        

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JK Marlow    jkm120415_072

April    Pickens County    SC

Clemson Forest

Leaves sessile, with leaf tips acute or acuminate & bases usually rounded, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

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JK Marlow    jkm120424_618b

April    Pickens County    SC

Jocassee Gorges

The scarlet-red petals fused and tubular for most of their 2" length, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

image of Spigelia marilandica, Indian-pink, Woodland Pinkroot, Wormgrass

Keith Bradley    kab_s_marilandica_0413

April    Lexington County    SC

image of Spigelia marilandica, Indian-pink, Woodland Pinkroot, Wormgrass

JK Marlow    jkm120506_609b

May    Oconee County    SC

5 linear sepals, 3-12mm long and tapered from base to apex, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Spigelia marilandica, Indian-pink, Woodland Pinkroot, Wormgrass

JK Marlow    jkm220527_8158

May    Oconee County    SC

image of Spigelia marilandica, Indian-pink, Woodland Pinkroot, Wormgrass

Mark A. Musselman    mam_indianpink051006n

May    Dorchester County    SC

Audubon Center at Francis Beidler Forest

The 5 lobes of the corolla spread to create a yellow star, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Spigelia marilandica, Indian-pink, Woodland Pinkroot, Wormgrass

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_s_marilandica_c2

May        

The style usually extends well outside the corolla tube, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).

image of Spigelia marilandica, Indian-pink, Woodland Pinkroot, Wormgrass

Ben Geer Keys    bgk1451_b

June        

Inflorescence terminal, one or two ebracteate, spicate helicoid cymes, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Spigelia marilandica, Indian-pink, Woodland Pinkroot, Wormgrass

JK Marlow    jkm0506h_37

June    Oconee County    SC

image of Spigelia marilandica, Indian-pink, Woodland Pinkroot, Wormgrass

JK Marlow    jkm190604_8891

June    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

image of Spigelia marilandica, Indian-pink, Woodland Pinkroot, Wormgrass

JK Marlow    jkm200606_5790

June    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

image of Spigelia marilandica, Indian-pink, Woodland Pinkroot, Wormgrass

Sam Pratt    sbp_3217

June    Spartanburg County    SC

In cultivation

image of Spigelia marilandica, Indian-pink, Woodland Pinkroot, Wormgrass

JK Marlow    jkm0507m_20

July    Oconee County    SC

Irregularly angled black seeds catapault before the capsule appears ripe, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Spigelia marilandica, Indian-pink, Woodland Pinkroot, Wormgrass

JK Marlow    jkm080726_164

July    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

image of Spigelia marilandica, Indian-pink, Woodland Pinkroot, Wormgrass

JK Marlow    jkm080726_166

July    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

image of Spigelia marilandica, Indian-pink, Woodland Pinkroot, Wormgrass

JK Marlow    jkm120728_030

July    Abbeville County    SC

Parson's Mountain Recreation Area

image of Spigelia marilandica, Indian-pink, Woodland Pinkroot, Wormgrass

JK Marlow    jkm120728_031

July    Abbeville County    SC

Parson's Mountain Recreation Area

image of Spigelia marilandica, Indian-pink, Woodland Pinkroot, Wormgrass

JK Marlow    jkm161009_903

October    Pickens County    SC

Clemson Forest

Venation impressed; lateral veins curved.

image of Spigelia marilandica, Indian-pink, Woodland Pinkroot, Wormgrass

JK Marlow    jkm201113_8210

November    Greenville County    SC

Caesars Head State Park

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Spigelia marilandica   FAMILY Loganiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spigelia marilandica   FAMILY Loganiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 154-02-001:
Spigelia marilandica   FAMILY Loganiaceae

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

 

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1451

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Moist to dry woodlands and forests, usually on circumneutral soils, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (rare in NC)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Margins entire

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Red outside (yellow inside)
Radially symmetrical
5 sepals
5-lobed tubular corolla
5 stamens
Bisexual

Flowers in a terminal one-sided (secund) cyme

FRUIT:
Summer

 

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