OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cryptotaenia canadensis   FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-21-001:

Cryptotaenia canadensis   FAMILY Apiaceae

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

Deringa canadensis

 

COMMON NAME:
Honewort


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JK Marlow    jkm200411_3714

April    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

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JK Marlow    jkm120506_383

May    Rabun County    GA

Chattahoochee National Forest

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JK Marlow    jkm140519_936

May    Jackson County    NC

Big Ridge Preserve

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JK Marlow    jkm210523_0636

May    Greenville County    SC

Ashmore Heritage Preserve

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JK Marlow    jkm210523_0640

May    Greenville County    SC

Ashmore Heritage Preserve

Leaves have 3 sharply and irregularly toothed (often lobed) leaflets, per Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977).

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JK Marlow    jkm210523_0644

May    Greenville County    SC

Ashmore Heritage Preserve

image of Cryptotaenia canadensis, Honewort

JK Marlow    jkm210523_0646

May    Greenville County    SC

Ashmore Heritage Preserve

image of Cryptotaenia canadensis, Honewort

JK Marlow    jkm210523_0652

May    Greenville County    SC

Ashmore Heritage Preserve

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Dan Whitten    sdw_052921_honewort

May    Greenville County    SC

Ashmore Heritage Preserve

image of Cryptotaenia canadensis, Honewort

JK Marlow    jkm140614_819

June    Rabun County    GA

Chattahoochee National Forest

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JK Marlow    jkm140614_819b

June    Rabun County    GA

Chattahoochee National Forest

Small flowers in loose, irregular, compound umbels, a few in each umbellet, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).

image of Cryptotaenia canadensis, Honewort

JK Marlow    jkm140614_837

June    Rabun County    GA

Chattahoochee National Forest

image of Cryptotaenia canadensis, Honewort

JK Marlow    jkm140614_864

June    Rabun County    GA

Chattahoochee National Forest

image of Cryptotaenia canadensis, Honewort

JK Marlow    jkm140614_866

June    Rabun County    GA

Chattahoochee National Forest

image of Cryptotaenia canadensis, Honewort

JK Marlow    jkm200606_5788

June    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

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Gill Newberry    gn07_cryptotaenia_lvs

July        

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JK Marlow    jkm100730_249

July    Jackson County    NC

Balsam Mountain Preserve

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JK Marlow    jkm100730_249b

July    Jackson County    NC

Balsam Mountain Preserve

Fruit two attached seedlike mericarps, linear-oblong, 4-7mm long, glabrous, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

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JK Marlow    jkm190719_9922

July    Transylvania County    NC

Pisgah National Forest: Pisgah Ranger District

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JK Marlow    jkm200717_6617

July    Jackson County    NC

Nantahala National Forest

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JK Marlow    jkm200717_6619

July    Jackson County    NC

Nantahala National Forest

Upper leaves on short petioles dilated as far as the leaflets, per Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist, 1991).

image of Cryptotaenia canadensis, Honewort

JK Marlow    jkm211112_4921

November    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cryptotaenia canadensis   FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-21-001:
Cryptotaenia canadensis   FAMILY Apiaceae

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

 

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412

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Moist and nutrient-rich forests (alluvial, bottomland, slope, and cove forests), per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (uncommon to rare in Coastal Plain south of VA)

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LEAVES:
Ternately compound
Alternate

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

Flowers in loose, irregular, compound umbels

FRUIT:
Summer
Schizocarp of two mericarps

 

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