Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Saxifragales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Heuchera parviflora var. parviflora
FAMILY
Saxifragaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Alumroot from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Heuchera parviflora var. parviflora
FAMILY
Saxifragaceae
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VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 094-11-002:
Heuchera parviflora
FAMILY
Saxifragaceae
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Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Heuchera parviflora
COMMON NAME:
Littleflower Alumroot, Cave Alumroot, Cumberland Grotto Alumroot, Small-flower Alumroot
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JK Marlow jkm0504r_01
April Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
The small, sharply toothed, rounded leaves have gently cut lobes, per All About South Carolina Wildflowers.
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JK Marlow jkm0504r_02
April Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
Heuchera usually has leaves as wide as long and with prominent variegation, per Weakley's Flora (2020).
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JK Marlow jkm190423_7648
April Oconee County SC
Jocassee Gorges
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JK Marlow jkm190423_7651
April Oconee County SC
Jocassee Gorges
Uncommon throughout its range, per Weakley's Flora.
COMPARE
Alumroot, Foamflower, and Miterwort
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Ron Lance rwl670_a
September
In deeply shaded sites, it is often the only vascular plant present, per Weakley's Flora.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_heuchera_parviflora
November
The tiny white flowers are in multiple branched racemes, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Heuchera parviflora var. parviflora
FAMILY
Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Heuchera parviflora var. parviflora
FAMILY
Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 094-11-002:
Heuchera parviflora
FAMILY
Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Heuchera parviflora
670
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Rare
Look for it in shaded cliff bases, usually under overhangs, on grotto floors, behind waterfalls where humidity is high but not in the spray zone, in rockhouses of the Cumberland Plateau, nearly always in deeply shaded situations where little or no direct sunlight falls, 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.
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Calyx white-hairy; petals pink
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5 petals (usually)
5 stamens
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers p174
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p143
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p024
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p109
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p139
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p385
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p066