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Habitat: Moist to dry forests
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Leaf veins are more deeply impressed than those of Polygonatum. — Patrick McMillan
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On the left Solomon's Seal; on the right, False Solomon's Seal.
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Numerous flowers in a dense terminal panicle 2-6" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Just before maturity the berry is green finely dotted with red, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
Habitat: Moist forests at high elevations, especially spruce-fir and northern hardwoods forests
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Leaves alternate in 2 rows, sessile, with prominent parallel veins, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Leaf margins fringed with short hairs, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Flowers rose or purplish, bell-shaped, hanging singly from a short pedicel beneath the axils, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Tepals 3/8" long with recurved tips, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Fruits are ellipsoid red berries, 0.4" across, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
Habitat: Moist forests and seepages at high elevations
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Leaf margins and nodes not coarsely ciliate; leaves strongly cordate-clasping, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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Tepals are greenish-white, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Leaves about 3-4" long, with grooved parallel veins. Flowers bell-shaped, each about 1/3" long, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Pedicel sharply geniculate at junction with peduncle, glabrous, per Flora of North America.
Habitat: Moist forests, especially cove forests, but also in montane oak forests
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Flowers 3/8-1/2" long, tubular and with 6 short, pointed, spreading tepal lobes, per Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019).
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Leaves narrowly elliptical to oval, short-petioled, per Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019).
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Leaves hariess above, with 3-9 finely hariy veins beneath, per Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019).
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Leaves pubescent on the veins beneath, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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Berry blue-black, globose, 7-9mm in diameter, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
Look for it . Depending on variety, it can be found in moist to dry forests and/or on roadbanks
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Leaves smooth and glaucous beneath, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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Flowers 12-21mm long, per Weakley's Flora.
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Flowers tubular with 6 short lobes, greenish when young, white when mature, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Berry blue-black, globose, 8-12mm in diameter, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
Habitat: Dry to moist upland, acidic forests, up to at least 1500m
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Stems 1-several from a crown, 1-2 branched, rarely simple; stolons absent or essentially so, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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1-3 light yellow flowers, 3/4-1" long; styles separate for half their length, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Capsule broadly ellipsoid, tapered to both ends, winged on the angles, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Upper stem/lower lf surfaces puberulent to glabrous (vs U. sessilifolia glabrous & usually glaucous), per Weakley's Flora.
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Similar to U. sessifolia, but leaves green and shining on both sides, per Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977).
Habitat: Moist hardwood forests, on slopes and mainly in bottomlands
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One flower per stem, pedicels bractless, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Mostly found in loose clumps, with 5-10" between stems, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Similar to U. puberula, but with smooth upper stems and whitish leaves, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).