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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Apiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sium suave   FAMILY Apiaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sium suave   FAMILY Apiaceae

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

Sium suave

INCLUDING Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Sium suave

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-27-001:

Sium suave   FAMILY Apiaceae

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

Sium cicutaefolium

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

Sium floridanum

 

COMMON NAME:
Hemlock Water-parsnip


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image of Sium suave, Hemlock Water-parsnip

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_sici2_001_lhd

        

image of Sium suave, Hemlock Water-parsnip

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_sisu2_002_lvd

        

image of Sium suave, Hemlock Water-parsnip

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_sium_suave1

July    Moore County    NC

Leaflets 7-17, finely toothed (vs. Oxypolis rigidior 5-9 and mostly entire, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).


click here to see other plants that look similar to this COMPARE pinnately compound leaves of forbs

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sium suave   FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sium suave   FAMILY Apiaceae

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

INCLUDING Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Sium suave

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-27-001:
Sium suave   FAMILY Apiaceae

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

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

 

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3116

Emergent aquatic (rooted); Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Freshwater marshes, brackish marshes, swamp forests, in tidally or seasonally flooded hydrology, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Pinnately compound
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer
White
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
Inferior ovary

Flowers in compound umbels

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of two mericarps

 

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