Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Pandanales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Croomia pauciflora
FAMILY
Stemonaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Croomia pauciflora sometimes may be overlooked because of its superficial resemblance to juvenile forms of Smilax ecirrhata and S. herbacea, per Flora of North America.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Croomia pauciflora
FAMILY
Stemonaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Croomia pauciflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26 (2002)
Croomia pauciflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Croomia pauciflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Croomia pauciflora
COMMON NAME:
Smallflower Croomia, Elfin Shoes
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Croomia pauciflora
FAMILY
Stemonaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Croomia pauciflora
FAMILY
Stemonaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Croomia pauciflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 26
Croomia pauciflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Croomia pauciflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Croomia pauciflora
4551
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Moist bluff forests, often with beech and basswood, per Weakley's Flora
Native to Georgia
Rare
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, clustered at stem tips & appearing whorled
Leaves have petioles.
Leaves do not have stipules.
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomatous, forming clonal colonies
FLOWER:
Spring
Yellowish-green
often tinged with purple
Radially symmetrical
4 tepals
4 stamens
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p107
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p454
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p150
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