OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Hovering over an image will enlarge it and point out features (works better on desktop than on mobile).

camera icon A camera indicates there are pictures.
speaker icon A speaker indicates that a botanical name is pronounced.
plus sign icon A plus sign after a Latin name indicates that the species is further divided into varieties or subspecies.

Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.

Your search found 13 taxa in the family Melanthiaceae, Bunchflower family, as understood by Weakley's Flora.

arrow

range map

camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Fly-poison

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Amianthium muscitoxicum   FAMILY: Melanthiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Amianthium muscitoxicum   FAMILY: Liliaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Amianthium muscaetoxicum 041-21-001   FAMILY: Liliaceae

 

Habitat: In a wide variety of mesic to dry forests, pine savannas, longleaf pine sandhills, meadows, from 5m to at least 1600m in elevation

Common

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


range map

camera icon Common Name: Florida Feathershank

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Schoenocaulon dubium   FAMILY: Melanthiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Schoenocaulon dubium   FAMILY: Liliaceae

 

Habitat: Dry pine savannas, longleaf pine sandhills, Florida scrub

Rare

Native to Georgia

 


range map

camera icon Common Name: Large Death Camas, Snakeroot, Sandbog Death-camas, Bog Death Camas

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Zigadenus glaberrimus   FAMILY: Melanthiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Zigadenus glaberrimus   FAMILY: Liliaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Zigadenus glaberrimus 041-22-001   FAMILY: Liliaceae

 

Habitat: Sandhill seepage bogs, pine savannas, pocosin edges

Common in Coastal Plain

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


range map

Common Name: White Death-camas, White Camass, Mountain Death-camas

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Anticlea glauca   FAMILY: Melanthiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Zigadenus elegans ssp. glaucus   FAMILY: Liliaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Zigadenus glaucus 041-22-002   FAMILY: Liliaceae

 

Habitat: Limestone and dolostone woodlands, glades, cliffs, and outcrops

Rare

Native to North Carolina

 


range map

camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Crow-poison, Savanna Camass, Osceola-plume

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Stenanthium densum   FAMILY: Melanthiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Zigadenus densus   FAMILY: Liliaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Zigadenus densus 041-22-003   FAMILY: Liliaceae

 

Habitat: Pine savannas, pine flatwoods

Common in Coastal Plain

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


range map

camera icon Common Name: Pinebarrens Death-camas

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Stenanthium leimanthoides   FAMILY: Melanthiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Zigadenus leimanthoides   FAMILY: Liliaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Zigadenus leimanthoides 041-22-004   FAMILY: Liliaceae

 

Habitat: High elevation rock outcrops, shrub balds, seepage areas at high elevations, fens, bogs in the Coastal Plain

Rare

Native to North Carolina & Georgia

 


range map

camera icon Common Name: Virginia Bunchflower, Bog Bunchflower

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Melanthium virginicum   FAMILY: Melanthiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Veratrum virginicum   FAMILY: Liliaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Melanthium virginicum 041-23-001   FAMILY: Liliaceae

 

Habitat: Pine savannas, bogs, fens, seeps, wet seepage-fed forests

Uncommon in Mountains & Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


range map

camera icon Common Name: Crisped Bunchflower, Broadleaf Bunchflower, Slender Bunchflower

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Melanthium hybridum   FAMILY: Melanthiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Veratrum hybridum   FAMILY: Liliaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Melanthium hybridum 041-23-002   FAMILY: Liliaceae

 

Habitat: Moist to dry forests, usually in base-rich soils

Uncommon in Carolina Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


range map

camera icon speaker icon Common Name: White-hellebore, Indian Poke, Green Hellebore, Cornhusk Lily

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Veratrum viride   FAMILY: Melanthiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Veratrum viride   FAMILY: Liliaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Veratrum viride 041-24-001   FAMILY: Liliaceae

 

Habitat: Seeps, streambanks, wet boulderfields

Common in NC Mountains, rare in GA

Native to North Carolina & Georgia

 


range map

camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Mountain Bunchflower, Small-flowered Hellebore, Small False Hellebore, Appalachian Bunchflower

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Melanthium parviflorum   FAMILY: Melanthiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Veratrum parviflorum   FAMILY: Liliaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Veratrum parviflorum 041-24-002   FAMILY: Liliaceae

 

Habitat: Moist to rather dry forests, up to at least 1700 meters, most frequent in oak forests at middle elevations

Common in Carolina Mountains, uncommon in GA Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


range map

camera icon Common Name: Ozark Bunchflower, Wood's False-hellebore

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Melanthium woodii   FAMILY: Melanthiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Veratrum woodii   FAMILY: Liliaceae

 

Habitat: Circumneutral soil of woodlands over mafic rocks (such as amphibolite) or other calcareous substrates, hammocks

Rare

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


range map

camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Featherbells, Eastern Featherbells

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Stenanthium gramineum var. gramineum   FAMILY: Melanthiaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Stenanthium gramineum var. gramineum   FAMILY: Liliaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Stenanthium gramineum 041-25-001   FAMILY: Liliaceae

 

Habitat: Dry and mesic forests and woodlands, grassy balds, serpentine barrens, to at least 1700m in elevation

Common in Carolina Mountains, uncommon in GA Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


range map

camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Bog Featherbells

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Stenanthium gramineum var. robustum   FAMILY: Melanthiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Stenanthium gramineum var. robustum   FAMILY: Liliaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Stenanthium gramineum 041-25-001?   FAMILY: Liliaceae

 

Habitat: Bogs and wet meadows

Rare

Native to North Carolina

 


Your search found 13 taxa. You are on page PAGE 1 out of 1 pages.


"How do we know which ornamental aliens have the capacity to become invasive and which do not?...it is very difficult to predict.... Japanese honeysuckle was planted as an ornamental for 80 years before it escaped cultivation." — Douglas W. Tallamy, Bringing Nature Home