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 1 taxon in the family Xerophyllaceae, Beargrass family, as understood by Weakley's Flora.

arrow

range map

camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Eastern Turkeybeard, Beargrass, Mountain-asphodel

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Xerophyllum asphodeloides   FAMILY: Xerophyllaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Xerophyllum asphodeloides   FAMILY: Liliaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Xerophyllum asphodeloides 041-15-001   FAMILY: Liliaceae

 

Habitat: Dry ridges and slopes in the mountains, primarily in dry, strongly acidic sites which burn periodically, such as pine/heath woodlands and forests, heath balds, and xeric oak forests, most of the populations in the Blue Ridge Escarpment, often associated with Pinus rigida or P. pungens, disjunct to similar sites on quartzite monadnocks of the upper Piedmont, in the Coastal Plain in acidic pinelands, and rarely in montane bogs

Uncommon in NC (rare in GA & SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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


"It is curious that the news media have drawn our attention to the loss of tropical forests yet have been silent when it comes to how we have devastated our own forests here in the temperate zone." — Douglas W. Tallamy, Bringing Nature Home