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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Liliales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Chamaelirium luteum   FAMILY Chionographidaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Chamaelirium luteum   FAMILY Liliaceae

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

Chamaelirium luteum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Chamaelirium luteum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 041-17-001:

Chamaelirium luteum   FAMILY Liliaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Chamaelirium luteum

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Chamaelirium obovale

 

COMMON NAME:
Fairywand, Devil's Bit


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image of Chamaelirium luteum, Fairywand, Devil's Bit

USDA Forest Service / A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia. 1969    mpa_page_083

        

image of Chamaelirium luteum, Fairywand, Devil's Bit

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_chlu_001_lvd

        

This species needs additional, more careful, study, per Weakley's Flora (2015).

image of Chamaelirium luteum, Fairywand, Devil's Bit

JK Marlow    jkm120310_197

March    Spartanburg County    SC

image of Chamaelirium luteum, Fairywand, Devil's Bit

JK Marlow    jkm0504r_29

April    Pickens County    SC

Table Rock State Park

Female spike erect and less than 2" long when flowering begins, but lengthens, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Chamaelirium luteum, Fairywand, Devil's Bit

JK Marlow    jkm090419_015

April    Pickens County    SC

Keowee Toxaway State Natural Area

Pistillate (female) spike.

image of Chamaelirium luteum, Fairywand, Devil's Bit

JK Marlow    jkm090419_025

April    Pickens County    SC

Keowee Toxaway State Natural Area

image of Chamaelirium luteum, Fairywand, Devil's Bit

JK Marlow    jkm100430_022

April    Greenville County    SC

Ashmore Heritage Preserve

Scape of pistillate flowers has 16-57 leaves, rapidly reduced upward, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Chamaelirium luteum, Fairywand, Devil's Bit

JK Marlow    jkm100430_027

April    Greenville County    SC

Ashmore Heritage Preserve

Leaves evergreen, in basal rosettes, elliptic to oblanceolate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Chamaelirium luteum, Fairywand, Devil's Bit

JK Marlow    jkm100430_034

April    Greenville County    SC

Ashmore Heritage Preserve

Staminate flowers usually in racemes, rachis usually white, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Chamaelirium luteum, Fairywand, Devil's Bit

JK Marlow    jkm120407_765

April    Spartanburg County    SC

image of Chamaelirium luteum, Fairywand, Devil's Bit

JK Marlow    jkm120407_768

April    Spartanburg County    SC

image of Chamaelirium luteum, Fairywand, Devil's Bit

JK Marlow    jkm150412_260

April    Pickens County    SC

Laurel Fork Heritage Preserve

image of Chamaelirium luteum, Fairywand, Devil's Bit

JK Marlow    jkm150424_724

April    Blount County    TN

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

image of Chamaelirium luteum, Fairywand, Devil's Bit

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_chamaelirium_luteum_2

April        

image of Chamaelirium luteum, Fairywand, Devil's Bit

JK Marlow    jkm080531_011

May    Pickens County    SC

Keowee Toxaway State Natural Area

Staminate flowers.

image of Chamaelirium luteum, Fairywand, Devil's Bit

JK Marlow    jkm100514_011

May    Greenville County    SC

Ashmore Heritage Preserve

image of Chamaelirium luteum, Fairywand, Devil's Bit

JK Marlow    jkm100514_042

May    Greenville County    SC

Ashmore Heritage Preserve

Pistillate flowers in racemes [with pedicels] or spikes [without pedicels], per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Chamaelirium luteum, Fairywand, Devil's Bit

JK Marlow    jkm100514_065

May    Greenville County    SC

Ashmore Heritage Preserve

Scape of staminate flowers has 5-17 leaves, rapidly reduced upward, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Chamaelirium luteum, Fairywand, Devil's Bit

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_chamaelirium_luteum_3

May        

image of Chamaelirium luteum, Fairywand, Devil's Bit

JK Marlow    jkm200613_5850

June    Jackson County    NC

Foothills Trail

image of Chamaelirium luteum, Fairywand, Devil's Bit

Tim Spira    tps_cluteum2

June        

Fairywand is usually found only as scattered individuals, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).


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image of Chamaelirium luteum, Fairywand, Devil's Bit

JK Marlow    jkm230717_4461

July    Greenville County    SC

Landrum Watershed

image of Chamaelirium luteum, Fairywand, Devil's Bit

JK Marlow    jkm230717_4464

July    Greenville County    SC

Landrum Watershed

image of Chamaelirium luteum, Fairywand, Devil's Bit

JK Marlow    jkm160818_625

August    Polk County    NC

Pearson's Falls

The flowering stalks of female plants persist for months as fruits mature, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Chamaelirium luteum   FAMILY Chionographidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Chamaelirium luteum   FAMILY Liliaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Chamaelirium luteum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 041-17-001:
Chamaelirium luteum   FAMILY Liliaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chamaelirium luteum

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chamaelirium obovale

 

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307

Forb
Perennial
Dioecious

Habitat: Moist slopes, bottomlands, wet pine savannas, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain)

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LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple
Basal rosette & alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
White/Greenish
Radially symmetrical
6 persistent tepals
6 stamens
Superior ovary
Unisexual (occasionally bisexual)

Inflorescence a raceme or spike

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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