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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Triosteum perfoliatum
FAMILY
Caprifoliaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Triosteum perfoliatum
FAMILY
Caprifoliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Triosteum perfoliatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 174-04-001:
Triosteum perfoliatum FAMILY Caprifoliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Triosteum perfoliatum var. perfoliatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Triosteum perfoliatum
COMMON NAME:
Perfoliate Horse-gentian, Perfoliate Tinker's-weed, Wild Coffee, Feverwort
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_trpe5_001_lvd
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_triosteum_perfoliatum
May
Herbage soft gray-hairy. Flowers purplish-red or greenish-yellow, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_t_perfoliatum_horseg2
June
Leaves primarily connate-perfoliate, the joined base 3-9cm wide, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Triosteum perfoliatum
FAMILY
Caprifoliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Triosteum perfoliatum
FAMILY
Caprifoliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Triosteum perfoliatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 174-04-001:
Triosteum perfoliatum
FAMILY
Caprifoliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Triosteum perfoliatum var. perfoliatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Triosteum perfoliatum
1891
Forb
Habitat: woodlands and forests in circumneutral soils, particularly those over mafic or calcareous rocks, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon
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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Red/ Brownish-red/ Greenish-yellow
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed tubular corolla
5 stamens
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Red/ Reddish-orange
Drupe
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p256
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p364
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p100
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p268
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p311
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p167
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