Anticlea glauca Kunth
Detail
- Family
- Melanthiaceae
- Botanical Name
- Anticlea glauca Kunth
- Common Name
- White Death-camas, White Camas
- Synonym(s)
- Anticlea elegans (Pursh ) Rydb. var. glauca (Nutt.) Zomlefer & Judd; Zigadenus glaucus (Nutt.) Nutt.; Zigadenus elegans Pursh ssp. glaucus (Nuttall) Hultén
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Anticlea glauca Kunth
- Comments
- This taxon has been variously treated as a species (Anticlea glauca), or ssp. or var. of Anticlea elegans (formerly Zigadenus elegans). While Weakley (2022) and Flora of Virginia treat it as a species, FNA (Vol. 26) chose not to even recognize two subspecific taxa within Zigadenus elegans because of considerable intergradation in the middle of the geographic range. While the appropriate treatment seems unresolved, we follow species recognition for consistency with the Flora.
- Habitat
- Dry woodlands, barrens, cliffs, and outcrops, often associated with Thuja occidentalis; occurs on limestone and dolostone in the c. and s. Ridge and Valley and Cumberland Mountains, and on metabasalt on the Northern Blue Ridge (Page and Rappahannock cos.). Infrequent and local in the mountains.
- Native Status
- Native
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