NameThatPlant.net: Ptilimnium costatum

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Ptilimnium costatum FAMILY Apiaceae

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Big Bishopweed at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ptilimnium costatum FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-30-003:
Ptilimnium costatum FAMILY Apiaceae

COMMON NAME:
Big Bishopweed, Ribbed Bishopweed

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image of Ptilimnium costatum, Big Bishopweed, Ribbed Bishopweed

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July

May resemble robust P. ahlesii or P. capillaceum, but can be larger & coarser, per Weakley's Flora.

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Ptilimnium costatum FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ptilimnium costatum FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-30-003:
Ptilimnium costatum FAMILY Apiaceae

3757

Forb
Perennial

Native to North Carolina & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC -

Rare

Look for it in tidal freshwater marshes (NC), wet prairies (GA), bottomland hardwood forests (GA), per Weakley's Flora

map
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...Wet

LEAVES:
Complexly compound into filiform segments
Whorl-like clusters

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White
5-merous
Inferior ovary

Flowers in compound umbels

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of two mericarps

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