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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Chelone glabra
FAMILY
Plantaginaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about White Turtlehead at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Chelone glabra
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Chelone glabra
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-13-004:
Chelone glabra FAMILY Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chelone chlorantha
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chelone glabra var. elongata
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chelone glabra var. ochroleuca
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chelone montana var. elatior
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chelone montana var. montana
COMMON NAME:
White Turtlehead
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA Forest Service / A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia. 1969 mpa_page_085
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_chgl2_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_chgl2_005_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm0304d_03
April Greenville County SC
Creekside/Riverside
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Keith Bradley kab_chelone_glabra_2510
August Hamilton County NY
Adirondack State Park
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JK Marlow jkm0309n_06
September Greenville County SC
Creekside/Riverside
Leaves resemble C. obliqua but proportionately narrower; petioles under 1/2", per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm0309n_07
September Greenville County SC
Creekside/Riverside
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JK Marlow jkm080927_007
September Greenville County SC
Flowers white, often tinged with pink or purple, in a dense terminal spike, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011).
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Tim Spira tps_cglabra5
September
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Diane Creaton dmc071014_014a
October Greenville County SC
Pleasant Ridge County Park
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JK Marlow jkm0410a_21
October Greenville County SC
Creekside/Riverside
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_chelone_glabra_4
October
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JK Marlow s071006_a
October Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow s071006_a2
October Greenville County SC
Filaments of the fertile stamens are lanose to pubescent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow s071006_b
October Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow s071006_b2
October Greenville County SC
Staminode is green, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Chelone glabra
FAMILY
Plantaginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Chelone glabra
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Chelone glabra
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-13-004:
Chelone glabra
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chelone chlorantha
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chelone glabra var. elongata
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chelone glabra var. ochroleuca
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chelone montana var. elatior
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chelone montana var. montana
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Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Streambanks, seeps, swamp forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (rare in GA Coastal Plain)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White & rose or purplish
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
2-lipped corolla
4 fertile included stamens (2 long, 2 short) & 1 sterile with green filament
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p115
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962) p128
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p118
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p115
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p094
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p093
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p077
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p087
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p225
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p328
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p238
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p282
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011) p347
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p155
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