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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Aphyllon uniflorum
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
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Unlike its noxious weed relatives, our widespread but furtive One-flowered Broomrape is a charming native spring flowering plant. Read more from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
At the tip of the stem is the single white to pale lavender flower, with yellow in the throat; it is curved to face horizontally, with 5 spreading petals... Though the plants are small, the entire plant is whitish, quite like an Indian-pipe (Monotropa uniflora) at first glance... Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Orobanche uniflora
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17 (2019)
Orobanche uniflora ssp. uniflora
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Orobanche uniflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Orobanche uniflora var. uniflora
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 169-03-001:
Orobanche uniflora FAMILY Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Thalesia uniflora
COMMON NAME:
One-flowered Cancer-root, One-flowered Broomrape, Ghostpipe
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_thun3_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm060429_090
April Macon County NC
Nantahala National Forest: Wayah Ranger District
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JK Marlow jkm160422_063
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm160422_064
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm110507_276
May Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
Corolla tubular & slightly curved, 3/4" long, with 5 spreading lobes, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm110507_280
May Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
Leaves are brown overlapping scales at base of naked flower stalk (scape), per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Keith Bradley kab_o_uniflora_73576
May Transylvania County NC
Nantahala National Forest
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Aphyllon uniflorum
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Orobanche uniflora
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17
Orobanche uniflora ssp. uniflora
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Orobanche uniflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Orobanche uniflora var. uniflora
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 169-03-001:
Orobanche uniflora
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Thalesia uniflora
991
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: In a wide diversity of forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in NC Mountains (uncommon elsewhere in NC); uncommon in GA Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
FLOWER:
Spring
Whitish
5-lobed cupulate-to-campanulate calyx
5-lobed tubular-salverform corolla
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring
Brown
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p067
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p182
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p219
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p172
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p093
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p094
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p232
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p274
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p251
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p294
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p162
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