Biology:Aletris lutea
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
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| Aletris lutea just starting to open in Palm Beach County, Florida. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Dioscoreales |
| Family: | Nartheciaceae |
| Genus: | Aletris |
| Species: | A. lutea
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| Aletris lutea Walter
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Aletris lutea (Yellow colic-root) is a plant species native to the southeastern United States from Louisiana to Georgia.[2][3][4][5]
Aletris lutea grows in wet areas, especially seasonally flooded pine forests near the coast. It is a perennial herb up to 100 cm tall, with a long spike of small, cylindrical flowers. Flowers are usually yellow but sometimes white.[6]
Ecology
Aletris lutea is insect pollinated and is recorded to have been visited in northern Florida by the bee species Megachile campanulae.[7]
References
- ↑ "NatureServe Explorer - Aletris lutea". NatureServe. 2022-06-22. https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.151754.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
- ↑ Godfrey, R. K. & J. W. Wooten. 1979. Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southeastern United States Monocotyledons 1–712. The University of Georgia Press, Athens
- ↑ Small, John Kunkel 1899. Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden 1(4): 278–279 in English
- ↑ "Aletris aurea in Flora of North America @ efloras.org". http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242101323.
- ↑ Ulyshen, M. D., K. Robertson, S. Horn, and C. Dixon. 2024. Characterization of the bee community and pollinatrion network in a southeastern U.S. pine savanna. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 12:1403602.
Wikidata ☰ Q2832870 entry
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