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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Ctenium aromaticum   FAMILY Poaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ctenium aromaticum   FAMILY Poaceae

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

Ctenium aromaticum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25 (2003)

Ctenium aromaticum

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

Ctenium aromaticum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-51-001:

Ctenium aromaticum   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)

Ctenium aromaticum

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

Campulosus aromaticus

 

COMMON NAME:
Toothache Grass, Orangegrass, Wild Ginger


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image of Ctenium aromaticum, Toothache Grass, Orangegrass, Wild Ginger

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_caar31_001_lvd

        

image of Ctenium aromaticum, Toothache Grass, Orangegrass, Wild Ginger

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_ctar_002_lvd

        

image of Ctenium aromaticum, Toothache Grass, Orangegrass, Wild Ginger

JK Marlow    jkm060423_074

April    Berkeley County    SC

Francis Marion National Forest

A recurved 1-sided spike bearing spikelets in 2 rows, with conspicuous awns, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

image of Ctenium aromaticum, Toothache Grass, Orangegrass, Wild Ginger

JK Marlow    jkm060423_116

April        SC

Francis Marion National Forest

image of Ctenium aromaticum, Toothache Grass, Orangegrass, Wild Ginger

Alan S. Weakley    asw_10231869850425232

July    Hoke County    NC

Flowers on only one side of the spike, each with awns, looking comblike, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).

image of Ctenium aromaticum, Toothache Grass, Orangegrass, Wild Ginger

Keith Bradley    kab_c_aromaticum_79748

September    Highlands County    FL

Kissimmee Prairie State Park

image of Ctenium aromaticum, Toothache Grass, Orangegrass, Wild Ginger

Sharleen Johnson    shj_858604585486251

December    Charleston County    SC

Francis Marion National Forest

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Ctenium aromaticum   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ctenium aromaticum   FAMILY Poaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Ctenium aromaticum

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-51-001:
Ctenium aromaticum   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Ctenium aromaticum

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

 

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1955

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Habitat: Wet pine savannas, pocosin-savanna ecotones, seepage bogs, sandhill-pocosin ecotones, sandhill seeps, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & low alternate, 2-ranked

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Spikelets tan to light brown

Inflorescence a spike

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Grain red
Grain

 

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