Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Ranunculales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Trautvetteria caroliniensis
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
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INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Trautvetteria caroliniensis var. caroliniensis
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Trautvetteria caroliniensis var. caroliniensis
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Trautvetteria caroliniensis var. caroliniensis
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 3 (1997)
Trautvetteria caroliniensis
INCLUDED WITHIN (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 076-14-001:
Trautvetteria carolinensis FAMILY Ranunculaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Trautvetteria carolinensis
COMMON NAME:
Carolina Tassel-rue, Carolina Bugbane, False Bugbane
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JK Marlow jkm190413_7346
April Rabun County GA
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Samantha Tessel sam041224_8530
April Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm0205j_21
May Rutherford County NC
Chimney Rock Park
Principal leaves up to 8" wide, palmately cleft into 5-11 segments, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Keith Bradley kab_t_caroliniensis_9848
June Buncombe County NC
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JK Marlow jkm060716_054
July Rutherford County NC
Chimney Rock Park
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JK Marlow jkm060716_063
July Rutherford County NC
Chimney Rock Park
Flowers 0.5" wide, with numerous white stamens in a corymbiform cluster, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm060716_066
July Rutherford County NC
Chimney Rock Park
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JK Marlow jkm230717_4509
July Greenville County SC
Landrum Watershed
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JK Marlow jkm240711_0287
July Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm240711_0310
July Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm160919_037
September Polk County NC
Pearson's Falls
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Trautvetteria caroliniensis
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Trautvetteria caroliniensis var. caroliniensis
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Trautvetteria caroliniensis var. caroliniensis
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Trautvetteria caroliniensis var. caroliniensis
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 3
Trautvetteria caroliniensis
INCLUDED WITHIN (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 076-14-001:
Trautvetteria carolinensis
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Trautvetteria carolinensis
1526
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Streambanks, seepages, grassy balds, moist forests, swamp forests, prairies, very rarely in calcareous longleaf pine savanna ecotones, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Mountains of GA & NC (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate & basal
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
3-5 sepals
Petals absent
Numerous stamens
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer
Aggregate of achenes
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p125
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p123
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p420
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p161
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p216
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p308
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p043
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p064
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p050
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