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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Valerianella radiata
FAMILY
Valerianaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Beaked Cornsalad at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Valerianella radiata
FAMILY
Valerianaceae
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Valerianella radiata
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Valerianella woodsiana
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 175-01-002:
Valerianella radiata FAMILY Valerianaceae
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Valerianella radiata
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Valerianella woodsiana
COMMON NAME:
Beaked Cornsalad
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_vara_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_vawo_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm190305_6632
March Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
Each leaf has a prominent central vein, per www.illinoiswildflowers.info.
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JK Marlow jkm070421_033
April Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
Similar to V. locusta, but stems often 2-7dm tall (vs locusta's usually 1-3dm), per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm070421_036
April Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
Valerianella of the southern mtns are succulent, dichotomously forked plants, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm070421_040
April Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
Flowers with conspicuously exserted stamens, in densely flowered cymes, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm070428_009
April Greenville County SC
Cauline leaves opposite, sessile, spatulate or elliptic-lanceolate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm120407_706
April Spartanburg County SC
Leaf margins smooth or with a few coarse teeth toward the base, per www.illinoiswildflowers.info.
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JK Marlow jkm200409_3558
April Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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Roxanna Martin rlm4911_307
April Spartanburg County SC
Outer bracts and bractlets of cymules spinulose-ciliate at apex, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow s080420_c
April TN
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JK Marlow jkm140504_736
May Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm200525_5193
May Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmvradiata_moultrie
May SC
Lake Moultrie
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Roxanna Martin rlm5710_192b
May Spartanburg County SC
Fruit is a nutlet, without corky thickening, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow s080503_b
May Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Valerianella radiata
FAMILY
Valerianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Valerianella radiata
FAMILY
Valerianaceae
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Valerianella radiata
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Valerianella woodsiana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 175-01-002:
Valerianella radiata
FAMILY
Valerianaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Valerianella radiata
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Valerianella woodsiana
2338
Forb
Winter annual
Habitat: Moist forests, bottomlands, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette & opposite
FLOWER:
Spring
White
Calyx lobes minute or obsolete
5-lobed funnelform corolla
3 exserted stamens
Inferior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Spring
Nutlet
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p163
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p135
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p101
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p341
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p270
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p313
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p167
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