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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Gillenia stipulata
FAMILY
Rosaceae
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Read more about Midwestern Indian Physic at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gillenia stipulata
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Gillenia stipulata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9 (2014)
Gillenia stipulata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Porteranthus stipulatus
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-13-002:
Gillenia stipulata FAMILY Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Porteranthus stipulatus
COMMON NAME:
Midwestern Indian-physic, American Ipecac
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_post5_001_lvd
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_gillenia_stipulata_2
June
Five narrow petals about 1/2" long and often slightly unequal in length, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm080726_101
July Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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JK Marlow jkm080726_102
July Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Not the common Ipecac of modern medicine, which comes from Cephaelis, per www.missouriplants.com (Tenaglia).
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JK Marlow jkm080726_105
July Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Both the leaflets and stipules are toothed, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm080726_110
July Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Capsules 4.5-5mm long, pubescent to glabrate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm160727_457
July Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Three lanceolate leaflets and 2 large stipules make the leaf look 5-parted, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
COMPARE
leaves of Bowman's Root and Indian Physic
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Gillenia stipulata
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gillenia stipulata
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Gillenia stipulata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9
Gillenia stipulata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Porteranthus stipulatus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-13-002:
Gillenia stipulata
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Porteranthus stipulatus
611
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Dry to mesic woodlands and forests, especially over circumneutral soils derived from mafic rocks (such as diabase or greenstone) or calcareous rocks, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Rare
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Palmately compound: 3 leaflets
Alternate
Leaves subsessile
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
(sometimes pinkish)
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5 petals
20 stamens (enclosed in the throat of the hypanthium)
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p143
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p162
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p232
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p025
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p313
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p118
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p150
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p072
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