Prosartes lanuginosa (Michx.) D. Don - Yellow Fairybells


 

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Prosartes lanuginosa - (image 1 of 5)

 

Taxonomy

Family: Liliaceae

 

Synonymous with Disporum lanuginosum (Michx.) G. Nicholson and Streptopus lanuginosus Michx.

Habitat

Rich woods.

Associates

 

Distribution

NY to southern Ontario, south to GA and AL, mainly in mountains.

Morphology

Herbaceous, rhizomatous perennial; stem 40-90 cm, dichotomously forked above, hairy when young; leaves sessile, thin, ovate or lance-ovate, 5-12 cm long and 2-5 cm wide, acuminate, lanulose beneath especially along the veins; flowers in subsessile clusters or 1-3 terminating the branches; pedicels 1.3-3 cm; tepals yellow-green, unspotted, narrowly lanceolate, 15-25 mm long and 2.5-4 mm wide; stamens 1/2 to 2/3 as long as the perianth, the filaments 6-10 mm; ovary narrowly ellipsoid, glabrous or slightly hairy; ovules pendulous, 2 per locule; stigma trifid; fruit a red, glabrous, few-seeded berry.

Notes

Flowers May to early June

Wetland indicator: NA

The flowers of this species are rather inconspicuous because they are only slightly lighter in color than the foliage and mostly obscured by it from above.

References

Gleason, Henry A. and A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Second Ed.

The New York Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY

 


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