NameThatPlant.net: Bowlesia incana

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Apiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Bowlesia incana FAMILY Apiaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

The native distribution of this species is uncertain, per Weakley's Flora (2022)

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bowlesia incana FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Bowlesia incana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)

Bowlesia incana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Bowlesia septentrionalis

COMMON NAME:
Hoary Bowlesia

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image of Bowlesia incana, Hoary Bowlesia

Keith Bradley kab_bowlesia_incana_2339

March Richland County SC

Olympia Park

Leaves orbicular, as wide as or wider than long, lobed but otherwise entire, per Weakley's Flora (2015).

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Bowlesia incana FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bowlesia incana FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Bowlesia incana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Bowlesia incana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Bowlesia septentrionalis

3915

Forb
Winter annual

Habitat: Open wet hammocks and bottomlands, suburban woodlands, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: South America

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves have long petioles.

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Pale greenish-white
5-merous
Inferior ovary

Flowers in axillary clusters

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer?
Schizocarp of two mericarps

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