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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Cicuta maculata var. maculata   FAMILY Apiaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cicuta maculata var. maculata   FAMILY Apiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Cicuta maculata var. maculata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Cicuta maculata var. maculata

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

Cicuta maculata

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-28-001:

Cicuta maculata   FAMILY Apiaceae

 

COMMON NAME:
Water-hemlock, Spotted Cowbane


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image of Cicuta maculata var. maculata, Water-hemlock, Spotted Cowbane

USDA / Selected Weeds of the US. 1970    swus_page_279

        

image of Cicuta maculata var. maculata, Water-hemlock, Spotted Cowbane

Frank Bridges    fab_cicuta_stem

July    Cobb County    GA

Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area

Stem smooth, sometimes streaked with purple, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Cicuta maculata var. maculata, Water-hemlock, Spotted Cowbane

JK Marlow    jkm060717_004

July    Greenville County    SC

Roadside/creekside

Tiny white flowers borne in compound umbels 2-5" wide, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Cicuta maculata var. maculata, Water-hemlock, Spotted Cowbane

JK Marlow    jkm060717_014

July    Greenville County    SC

Roadside/creekside

Rays 15-30+. Involucel bractlets [of the umbellets] 6-9, linear-lanceolate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Cicuta maculata var. maculata, Water-hemlock, Spotted Cowbane

JK Marlow    jkm170715_692

July    Greenville County    SC

image of Cicuta maculata var. maculata, Water-hemlock, Spotted Cowbane

JK Marlow    jkm170715_695

July    Greenville County    SC

image of Cicuta maculata var. maculata, Water-hemlock, Spotted Cowbane

JK Marlow    jkm170715_698

July    Greenville County    SC

image of Cicuta maculata var. maculata, Water-hemlock, Spotted Cowbane

JK Marlow    jkm170716_420

July    Greenville County    SC

image of Cicuta maculata var. maculata, Water-hemlock, Spotted Cowbane

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_cicuta_maculata_2

July        

image of Cicuta maculata var. maculata, Water-hemlock, Spotted Cowbane

JK Marlow    jkm0308d_37

August    Greenville County    SC

Roadside/creekside

A tall branching plant common in wet places, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Cicuta maculata var. maculata, Water-hemlock, Spotted Cowbane

JK Marlow    jkm0308k_06

August    Greenville County    SC

Roadside/creekside

image of Cicuta maculata var. maculata, Water-hemlock, Spotted Cowbane

JK Marlow    jkm160818_598

August    Polk County    NC

Pearson's Falls

image of Cicuta maculata var. maculata, Water-hemlock, Spotted Cowbane

JK Marlow    jkm160818_600

August    Polk County    NC

Pearson's Falls

The veins of the leaflets end at notches (in Angelica they do not), per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).


click here to see other plants that look similar to this COMPARE leaves of American Lovage, Hairy Angelica and Water Hemlock

image of Cicuta maculata var. maculata, Water-hemlock, Spotted Cowbane

JK Marlow    jkm160919_032

September    Polk County    NC

Pearson's Falls

Fruit plane or weakly ridged at the juncture of the mericarps, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Cicuta maculata var. maculata   FAMILY Apiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cicuta maculata var. maculata   FAMILY Apiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Cicuta maculata var. maculata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Cicuta maculata var. maculata

INCLUDED WITHIN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Cicuta maculata

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-28-001:
Cicuta maculata   FAMILY Apiaceae

 

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Forb
Perennial

Habitat: marshes, bogs, seepages, fens, ditches, swamp forests, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)

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LEAVES:
Complexly compound, with 2+ levels of pinnate and/or ternate compoundness
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
Inferior ovary

Flowers in compound umbels

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of two mericarps

 

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