Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Apiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Zizia trifoliata
FAMILY
Apiaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Mountain Golden-Alexanders at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Zizia trifoliata
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-14-003:
Zizia trifoliata
FAMILY
Apiaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Zizia bebbii
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Zizia latifolia
COMMON NAME:
Mountain Golden-Alexanders
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JK Marlow jkm090412_070
April Greenville County SC
Chestnut Ridge Heritage Preserve
Basal leaflets mostly rounded to obtuse at apex, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm090412_084
April Greenville County SC
Chestnut Ridge Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm090412_084b
April Greenville County SC
Chestnut Ridge Heritage Preserve
Each umbellet's central flwr staminate & pedicelled, or pistillate & sessile, per Weakley's Flora (2018).
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JK Marlow jkm090412_088
April Greenville County SC
Chestnut Ridge Heritage Preserve
Teeth of the leaflets coarse, averaging (1)2-3(4) per cm of margin, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm090412_092
April Greenville County SC
Chestnut Ridge Heritage Preserve
Basal leaves mostly 3-foliolate (or more divided), per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm160426_591
April Polk County NC
Pearson's Falls
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JK Marlow jkm160426_595
April Polk County NC
Pearson's Falls
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JK Marlow jkm160426_599
April Polk County NC
Pearson's Falls
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JK Marlow jkm200418_3953
April Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm120517_831b
May Yancey County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm140519_853
May Jackson County NC
Big Ridge Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm160504_347
May Jackson County NC
Panthertown
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JK Marlow jkm0509j_27
September Transylvania County NC
Silver Run Preserve
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Zizia trifoliata
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Zizia trifoliata
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-14-003:
Zizia trifoliata
FAMILY
Apiaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Zizia bebbii
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Zizia latifolia
1690
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common (rare in Coastal Plain), an endemic
Look for it in moist forests, woodlands, and woodland borders, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Moist
LEAVES:
All leaves: 3-or-more foliolate
Basal & alternate (reduced upward)
FLOWER:
Spring
Golden yellow
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
Inferior ovary
Compound umbel with 4-10(-12) rays
FRUIT:
Summer
Schizocarp of two mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers p018?
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p260
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p059
- Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p128
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p167
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p218
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p117