Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Magnoliids: Piperales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hexastylis virginica
FAMILY
Aristolochiaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Hexastylis from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
H. memmingeri, a taxon close to H. virginica, with the calyx very small (< 1.5cm long), narrowly cylindro-urceolate, and the calyx lobes very short (ca. 2mm long) will key here. Gaddy does not recognize it, considering it a small form of H. virginica, but it may warrant taxonomic status. It is known from NC, VA, and WV, in the Piedmont and Mountains. Read more in Weakley's Flora (2023).
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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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_heme7_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_hevi3_001_lvd
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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
681
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Upland forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Common in NC Mountains, uncommon in NC Piedmont
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p176
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p117?
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p477
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest: Northeastern US (Clemants & Gracie, 2006) p260
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p028
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p047
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p031
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