NameThatPlant.net: Menyanthes trifoliata

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Menyanthes trifoliata FAMILY Menyanthaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Buckbean at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Menyanthes trifoliata FAMILY Menyanthaceae

COMMON NAME:
Buckbean, Bogbean

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Menyanthes trifoliata FAMILY Menyanthaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Menyanthes trifoliata FAMILY Menyanthaceae

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Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Mucky soils of mountain fens at high elevations over amphibolite (in the Blue Ridge), boggy marshes over calcareous rocks (in the Ridge and Valley), seepage swamps (in the Coastal Plain), per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina

Rare

CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

LEAVES:
Compound: 3 leaflets
Mostly basal
Leaves have long petioles.
Margins entire

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomatous

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed campanulate corolla

Inflorescence a raceme

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule

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