Clintonia umbellulata (Michx.) Morong
Detail
- Family
- Liliaceae
- Botanical Name
- Clintonia umbellulata (Michx.) Morong
- Common Name
- Speckled Wood Lily, White Clintonia
- Synonym(s)
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Clintonia umbellulata (Michx.) Morong
- Comments
- Plants known as Clintonia alleghaniensis Harned, allegedly differing from C. umbellulata in its ultramarine-blue berry (vs. black), is known from a number of sites in Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia. It has been variously interpreted as a species, a hybrid of C. borealis and C. umbellulata, or merely an odd form of C. umbellulata.
- Habitat
- Northern red oak forests, montane mixed oak and oak-hickory forests, and cove forests; less commonly in northern hardwood forests, oak/heath forests, seepage swamps, and montane alluvial forests; occurs in both nutrient-poor and base-rich soils, generally at lower elevations than Clintonia borealis, although the two species sometimes occur together. Frequent to common in the mountains, rare in the far sw. Piedmont.
- Native Status
- Native
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