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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Taenidia integerrima
FAMILY
Apiaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Taenidia integerrima
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Taenidia integerrima
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Taenidia integerrima
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-13-001:
Taenidia integerrima FAMILY Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Taenidia integerrima
COMMON NAME:
Yellow Pimpernel
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_tain_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm120426_709
April Yancey County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm150424_681
April Blount County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm150424_685
April Blount County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm150424_727
April Blount County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm120517_855
May Yancey County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Leaflets have consistently entire margins, which is uncommon in Apiaceae, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
COMPARE
leaves that resemble Thalictrum
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JK Marlow jkm120517_856
May Yancey County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm120517_858
May Yancey County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
A smooth, often glaucous, branched perennial 16-32" tall, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm120517_876
May Yancey County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
The umbel is open, its slender primary rays up to 3" long and unequal, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm120517_876b
May Yancey County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Umbellets have fertile flowers around margin; inner flowers are male only, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm230907_5314
September Greenville County SC
Greenville Watershed
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JK Marlow jkm230907_5316
September Greenville County SC
Greenville Watershed
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Taenidia integerrima
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Taenidia integerrima
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Taenidia integerrima
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Taenidia integerrima
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-13-001:
Taenidia integerrima
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Taenidia integerrima
1482
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: In rocky, dry to dry-mesic forests and woodlands over mafic or calcareous rock, such as diabase, amphibolite, calcareous siltstone, calcareous shale, or limestone, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain)
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LEAVES:
Complexly compound, with 2+ levels of pinnate and/or ternate compoundness
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring
Yellow
5-merous
Inferior ovary
Flowers in compound umbels
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Schizocarp of two mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p226
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p257
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p181
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p217
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p117
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