OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Ranunculales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Trautvetteria caroliniensis   FAMILY Ranunculaceae   Go to FSUS key



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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image of Trautvetteria caroliniensis, Carolina Tassel-rue, Carolina Bugbane, False Bugbane

JK Marlow    jkm190413_7346

April    Rabun County    GA

image of Trautvetteria caroliniensis, Carolina Tassel-rue, Carolina Bugbane, False Bugbane

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).

image of Trautvetteria caroliniensis, Carolina Tassel-rue, Carolina Bugbane, False Bugbane

Keith Bradley    kab_t_caroliniensis_9848

June    Buncombe County    NC

image of Trautvetteria caroliniensis, Carolina Tassel-rue, Carolina Bugbane, False Bugbane

JK Marlow    jkm060716_054

July    Rutherford County    NC

Chimney Rock Park

image of Trautvetteria caroliniensis, Carolina Tassel-rue, Carolina Bugbane, False Bugbane

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).

image of Trautvetteria caroliniensis, Carolina Tassel-rue, Carolina Bugbane, False Bugbane

JK Marlow    jkm060716_066

July    Rutherford County    NC

Chimney Rock Park

image of Trautvetteria caroliniensis, Carolina Tassel-rue, Carolina Bugbane, False Bugbane

JK Marlow    jkm230717_4509

July    Greenville County    SC

Landrum Watershed

image of Trautvetteria caroliniensis, Carolina Tassel-rue, Carolina Bugbane, False Bugbane

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

 

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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

 

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