OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Magnoliids: Piperales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hexastylis virginica   FAMILY Aristolochiaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hexastylis virginica   FAMILY Aristolochiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Hexastylis virginica

SYNONYMOUS WITH Asarum chueyi (Aristolochiaceae), a new species from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Tennessee and Virginia, USA (Sinn, 2015)

Asarum virginicum

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

Hexastylis virginica

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 3 (1997)

Hexastylis virginica

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)

Hexastylis virginica

SYNONYMOUS WITH A review of the taxonomy and biogeography of Hexastylis (Aristolochiaceae) (Gaddy, 1987)

Hexastylis virginica

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 062-03-003:

Hexastylis virginica   FAMILY Aristolochiaceae

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Asarum memmingeri

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Hexastylis memmingeri

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Hexastylis virginica

 

COMMON NAME:
Virginia Heartleaf


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image of Hexastylis virginica, Virginia Heartleaf

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_heme7_001_lvd

        

image of Hexastylis virginica, Virginia Heartleaf

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_hevi3_001_lvd

        

image of Hexastylis virginica, Virginia Heartleaf

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_h_virginica_13

May    Iredell County    NC

Leaves mottled or unmottled, if mottled, the paler areas along the veins, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Hexastylis virginica, Virginia Heartleaf

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_h_virginica_40

May    Iredell County    NC

Leaves rounded, with cordate base, all portions of the sides convex, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Hexastylis virginica, Virginia Heartleaf

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_h_virginica_41

May    Iredell County    NC

Calyx lobes 2-4mm long, erect to slightly spreading, per A Review of the Taxonomy & Biogeography of Hexastylis, Aristolochiaceae (Gaddy, 1987).

image of Hexastylis virginica, Virginia Heartleaf

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_h_virginica_41b

May    Iredell County    NC

Calyx tube cylindrical to narrowly cylindro-urceolate, per A Review of the Taxonomy & Biogeography of Hexastylis, Aristolochiaceae (Gaddy, 1987).

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hexastylis virginica   FAMILY Aristolochiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Hexastylis virginica

SYNONYMOUS WITH Asarum chueyi (Aristolochiaceae), a new species from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Tennessee and Virginia, USA (Sinn, 2015)
Asarum virginicum

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 3
Hexastylis virginica

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Hexastylis virginica

SYNONYMOUS WITH A review of the taxonomy and biogeography of Hexastylis (Aristolochiaceae) (Gaddy, 1987)
Hexastylis virginica

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 062-03-003:
Hexastylis virginica   FAMILY Aristolochiaceae

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Asarum memmingeri

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hexastylis memmingeri

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hexastylis virginica

 

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681

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Upland forests, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina & Georgia

Common in NC Mountains, uncommon in NC Piedmont

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LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple
Plant acaulescent (without aerial stems). Leaves alternate, 2-ranked

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomatous

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Pale purplish/ Purplish-brown
3-merous
3-lobed cylindrical to narrowly cylindro-urceolate calyx tube
Petals absent
12 stamens
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule

 

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