Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Magnoliids: Piperales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hexastylis shuttleworthii
FAMILY
Aristolochiaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Hexastylis from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hexastylis shuttleworthii var. shuttleworthii
FAMILY
Aristolochiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Hexastylis shuttleworthii var. shuttleworthii
SYNONYMOUS WITH New combinations in North American Asarum (Aristolochiaceae) (Barringer, 1993)
Asarum shuttleworthii var. shuttleworthii
SYNONYMOUS WITH A review of the taxonomy and biogeography of Hexastylis (Aristolochiaceae) (Gaddy, 1987)
Hexastylis shuttleworthii var. shuttleworthii
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 062-03-007:
Hexastylis shuttleworthii FAMILY Aristolochiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hexastylis shuttleworthii
COMMON NAME:
Large-flower Heartleaf, Wild Ginger
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JK Marlow jkm080329_021
March Pickens County SC
Keowee Toxaway State Natural Area
Calyx tube 15-40mm long, lobes 10-22mm wide at base, spreading ascending, per A Review of the Taxonomy & Biogeography of Hexastylis, Aristolochiaceae (Gaddy, 1987).
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JK Marlow jkm080329_024
March Pickens County SC
Keowee Toxaway State Natural Area
Leaves mottled - or not. If mottled, the paler portions along the veins, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm130420_500
April Transylvania County NC
Foothills Trail
Internal ridged reticulation a regular open network, per A Review of the Taxonomy & Biogeography of Hexastylis, Aristolochiaceae (Gaddy, 1987).
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JK Marlow jkm130420_505
April Transylvania County NC
Foothills Trail
The very large flowers make this species readily identifiable, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).
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JK Marlow jkm130420_512
April Transylvania County NC
Foothills Trail
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JK Marlow jkm130420_588
April Transylvania County NC
Foothills Trail
Stamens adnate to the pistil and erect; 6 separate, erect styles, per A Review of the Taxonomy & Biogeography of Hexastylis, Aristolochiaceae (Gaddy, 1987).
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JK Marlow jkm160502_066
May Macon County NC
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JK Marlow jkm160502_067
May Macon County NC
Leaves rounded, w cordate base, all portions of the sides of the leaves convex, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm160502_071
May Macon County NC
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JK Marlow jkm160516_774
May Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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JK Marlow jkm170923_p1350956
September Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hexastylis shuttleworthii
FAMILY
Aristolochiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hexastylis shuttleworthii var. shuttleworthii
FAMILY
Aristolochiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Hexastylis shuttleworthii var. shuttleworthii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
New combinations in North American Asarum (Aristolochiaceae) (Barringer, 1993)
Asarum shuttleworthii var. shuttleworthii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
A review of the taxonomy and biogeography of Hexastylis (Aristolochiaceae) (Gaddy, 1987)
Hexastylis shuttleworthii var. shuttleworthii
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 062-03-007:
Hexastylis shuttleworthii
FAMILY
Aristolochiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hexastylis shuttleworthii
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Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Acidic soils in deciduous and deciduous-coniferous forests, often along creeks under Rhododendron maximum, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in NC Mountains, uncommon in Mountains of GA & SC, uncommon in GA Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple
Plant acaulescent (without aerial stems). Leaves alternate, 2-ranked
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomatous
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Pale purplish/ Purplish-brown
Bisexual
3-merous
3-lobed urceolate-campanulate calyx tube
Petals absent
12 stamens
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p176
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p110
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p138
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p159
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p476
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p002
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest: Northeastern US (Clemants & Gracie, 2006) p260
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p062
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p045
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p029
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p048
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011) p387
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p031