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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Valerianella umbilicata
FAMILY
Valerianaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Navel Cornsalad at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Valerianella umbilicata
FAMILY
Valerianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Valerianella umbilicata
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 175-01-003:
Valerianella umbilicata FAMILY Valerianaceae
INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Valerianella radiata var. intermedia
INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Valerianella umbilicata
INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Valerianella intermedia
INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Valerianella patellaria
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Valerianella patellaria
COMMON NAME:
Navel Cornsalad
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Valerianella umbilicata
FAMILY
Valerianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Valerianella umbilicata
FAMILY
Valerianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Valerianella umbilicata
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 175-01-003:
Valerianella umbilicata
FAMILY
Valerianaceae
INCLUDING
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Valerianella radiata var. intermedia
INCLUDING
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Valerianella umbilicata
INCLUDING
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Valerianella intermedia
INCLUDING
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Valerianella patellaria
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Valerianella patellaria
3366
Forb
Annual
Habitat: Moist forests, bottomlands, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas
Rare
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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette & opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Calyx lobes minute or obsolete
5-lobed funnelform corolla
3 exserted stamens
Inferior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Nutlet
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p270
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p313
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) P167
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