OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Chelone cuthbertii   FAMILY Plantaginaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Chelone cuthbertii   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Chelone cuthbertii

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-13-001:

Chelone cuthbertii   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

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

Chelone cuthbertii

 

COMMON NAME:
Cuthbert’s Turtlehead


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image of Chelone cuthbertii, Cuthbert’s Turtlehead

JK Marlow    jkm060903_058

September    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

[Pollinator at work] Flowers strongly 4-ranked, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Chelone cuthbertii, Cuthbert’s Turtlehead

JK Marlow    jkm060903_073

September    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

image of Chelone cuthbertii, Cuthbert’s Turtlehead

JK Marlow    jkm060903_079

September    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

Leaves sessile, lanceolate, leaf base rounded, margins serrate, apex acuminate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Chelone cuthbertii   FAMILY Plantaginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Chelone cuthbertii   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Chelone cuthbertii

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-13-001:
Chelone cuthbertii   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2488

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: bogs, sphagnous swamps, seeps, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in NC Mountains, rare elsewhere (historically in SC, but not recently seen)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Purplish
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
2-lipped corolla
4 fertile included stamens (2 long, 2 short) & 1 sterile with purple filament
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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