Aletris obovata: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Dioscoreales
- Family
- Nartheciaceae
- Genus
- Aletris
- Species
- Aletris obovata
- Scientific Name
- Aletris obovata
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Aletris obovata
Aletris obovata (southern colicroot or white colic-root) is a plant species native to the southeastern United States (Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia).
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.
...Aletris obovata in languages:
- English
- White colic-root
- English
- Southern Colicroot
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Aletris alpestris
- Aletris aurea
- Aletris bracteata
- Aletris capitata
- Aletris cinerascens
- Aletris farinosa
- Aletris foliata
- Aletris foliolosa
- Aletris foliosa
- Aletris formosana
- Aletris glabra
- Aletris glandulifera
- Aletris gracilis
- Aletris laxiflora
- Aletris lutea
- Aletris megalantha
- Aletris nana
- Aletris obovata
- Aletris pauciflora
- Aletris pedicellata
- Aletris scopulorum
- Aletris simpliciflora
- Aletris spicata
- Aletris stenoloba
- Aletris yaanica
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