Biology:Aletris obovata
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
| Aletris obovata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Dioscoreales |
| Family: | Nartheciaceae |
| Genus: | Aletris |
| Species: | A. obovata
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| Binomial name | |
| Aletris obovata Nash
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Aletris obovata (southern colicroot or white colic-root) is a plant species native to the southeastern United States (Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia).[2][3][4][5]
Aletris obovata grows in moist areas, such as pine woodlands and savannahs. It is a perennial herb up to 100 cm tall, with a long spike of small, cylindrical flowers. Flowers are usually white or cream-colored with brownish tips on the corolla lobes, the lobes bent inwards to give the flower an overall rounded, ovoid or obovoid (egg-shaped) shape with only a narrow opening at the tip. It is usually pollinated by butterflies.[6][7]
References
- ↑ "NatureServe Explorer - Aletris obovata". NatureServe. 2022-06-22. https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.155526.
- ↑ "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew" (in en-GB). http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=294724.
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map Image
- ↑ Sullivan, Victoria I. (1973-01-01). "Biosystematics of Aletris Lutea Small, Aletris obovata Nash, and Natural Hybrids (Liliaceae)". Brittonia 25 (3): 294–303. doi:10.2307/2805590.
- ↑ Govaerts, R., Wilkin, P. & Saunders, R.M.K. (2007). World Checklist of Dioscoreales. Yams and their allies: 1-65. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- ↑ "Aletris obovata in Flora of North America @ efloras.org". http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242101326.
- ↑ Hill, Hawthorn (2010-09-09). "Native Florida Wildflowers: White Colic-root - Aletris obovata". http://hawthornhillwildflowers.blogspot.com/2010/09/white-colic-root-aletris-obovata.html.
External links
- Phytoimages photos
- Aletris Uses, Benefits & Dosage - Drugs.com Herbal Database
- Henriette Kress, Henriette's Herbal Page
Wikidata ☰ Q2832872 entry
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