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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (2/8/20):
Cicuta maculata var. maculata
FAMILY
Apiaceae
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Read more about Cicuta at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cicuta maculata var. maculata
FAMILY
Apiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-28-001:
Cicuta maculata FAMILY Apiaceae
COMMON NAME:
Water Hemlock, Spotted Cowbane
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Frank Bridges fab_cicuta_stem
July Cobb County GA
Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area
Stem smooth, sometimes streaked with purple, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm060717_004
July Greenville County SC
Roadside/creekside
Tiny white flowers borne in compound umbels 2-5" wide, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm060717_014
July Greenville County SC
Roadside/creekside
Rays 15-30+. Involucel bractlets [of the umbellets] 6-9, linear-lanceolate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm170715_692
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm170715_695
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm170715_698
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm170716_420
July Greenville County SC
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_cicuta_maculata_2
July
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JK Marlow jkm0308d_37
August Greenville County SC
Roadside/creekside
A tall branching plant common in wet places, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm0308k_06
August Greenville County SC
Roadside/creekside
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JK Marlow jkm160818_598
August Polk County NC
Pearson's Falls
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JK Marlow jkm160818_600
August Polk County NC
Pearson's Falls
The veins of the leaflets end at notches (in Angelica they do not), per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).
COMPARE
leaves of American Lovage, Hairy Angelica and Water Hemlock
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JK Marlow jkm160919_032
September Polk County NC
Pearson's Falls
Fruit plane or weakly ridged at the juncture of the mericarps, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (2/8/20):
Cicuta maculata var. maculata
FAMILY
Apiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cicuta maculata var. maculata
FAMILY
Apiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-28-001:
Cicuta maculata
FAMILY
Apiaceae
326
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: marshes, bogs, seepages, ditches, swamp forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
LEAVES:
Complexly compound, with 2+ levels of pinnate and/or ternate compoundness
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
Inferior ovary
Flowers in compound umbels
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of two mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p325
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p222
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p147
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p100
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p060
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p031
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p175
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p211
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p117
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p242