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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cryptotaenia canadensis
FAMILY
Apiaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cryptotaenia canadensis
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-21-001:
Cryptotaenia canadensis FAMILY Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Deringa canadensis
COMMON NAME:
Honewort
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JK Marlow jkm200411_3714
April Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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JK Marlow jkm120506_383
May Rabun County GA
Chattahoochee National Forest
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JK Marlow jkm140519_936
May Jackson County NC
Big Ridge Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm210523_0636
May Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm210523_0640
May Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
Leaves have 3 sharply and irregularly toothed (often lobed) leaflets, per Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977).
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JK Marlow jkm210523_0644
May Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm210523_0646
May Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm210523_0652
May Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
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Dan Whitten sdw_052921_honewort
May Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm140614_819
June Rabun County GA
Chattahoochee National Forest
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JK Marlow jkm140614_837
June Rabun County GA
Chattahoochee National Forest
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JK Marlow jkm140614_864
June Rabun County GA
Chattahoochee National Forest
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JK Marlow jkm140614_866
June Rabun County GA
Chattahoochee National Forest
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JK Marlow jkm200606_5788
June Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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JK Marlow jkm250625_1340
June Jackson County NC
Big Ridge Preserve
Small flowers in loose, irregular, compound umbels, a few in each umbellet, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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Gill Newberry gn07_cryptotaenia_lvs
July
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JK Marlow jkm100730_249
July Jackson County NC
Balsam Mountain Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm100730_249b
July Jackson County NC
Balsam Mountain Preserve
Fruit two attached seedlike mericarps, linear-oblong, 4-7mm long, glabrous, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm190719_9922
July Transylvania County NC
Pisgah National Forest: Pisgah Ranger District
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JK Marlow jkm200717_6617
July Jackson County NC
Nantahala National Forest
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JK Marlow jkm200717_6619
July Jackson County NC
Nantahala National Forest
Upper leaves on short petioles dilated as far as the leaflets, per Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist, 1991).
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JK Marlow jkm211112_4921
November Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cryptotaenia canadensis
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cryptotaenia canadensis
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-21-001:
Cryptotaenia canadensis
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Deringa canadensis
412
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Moist and nutrient-rich forests (alluvial, bottomland, slope, and cove forests), per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (uncommon to rare in Coastal Plain south of VA)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Ternately compound
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
Inferior ovary
Flowers in loose, irregular, compound umbels
FRUIT:
Summer
Schizocarp of two mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p218
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p147
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p032
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p176
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p114
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