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Learn more about Asarum from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Asarum canadense   FAMILY Aristolochiaceae

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

Asarum canadense

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 3 (1997)

Asarum canadense

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 062-02-001?:

Asarum canadense   FAMILY Aristolochiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Asarum canadense var. reflexum

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

Asarum reflexum

COMMON NAME:
Reflexed Wild Ginger

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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_asre10_001_lvd

        

JK Marlow    jkm120326_989

March    McCormick County    SC

Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve

Leaves deciduous, membranous, pubescent, cordate to reniform, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

Tim Spira    tps_acanadense1

March        

Flower solitary, arising between the petioles. Petioles villous, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

JK Marlow    jkm0504e_13

April    McCormick County    SC

Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve

JK Marlow    jkm070407_080

April    McCormick County    SC

Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve

JK Marlow    jkm170408_492

April    Laurens County    SC

Sumter National Forest: Tyger Ranger District

Keith Bradley    kab_asarum_canadense_2619

April    Calhoun County    SC

Congaree Bluffs Heritage Preserve

False calyx tube cylindric, externally hirsute (often densely), per Flora of North America.

David Campbell    mdc_a_reflexum

April    Berkeley County    SC

Floodplain

Calyx lobes reflexed, oft appressed against tube (but spreading or ascending as fruit develops), per Weakley's Flora (2022).

David Campbell    mdc_a_reflexum_habitat

May    Laurens County    SC

Floodplain

Plants spread both by seeds and by rhizomes, sometimes in dense carpets, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011).

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Asarum reflexum   FAMILY Aristolochiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Asarum canadense   FAMILY Aristolochiaceae

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

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 3
Asarum canadense

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 062-02-001?:
Asarum canadense   FAMILY Aristolochiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Asarum canadense var. reflexum

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