Shortia galacifolia
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| Oconee bells | |
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| Oconee Bells | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Diapensiaceae |
| Genus: | Shortia |
| Species: | S. galacifolia |
| Binomial name | |
| Shortia galacifolia Torr. & Gray |
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Shortia galacifolia (Oconee bells or Acony Bell) is a rare plant of the Southern Appalachians in the family Diapensiaceae. It is a relict herb which long bewitched Asa Gray, the eminent American botanist, a saga detailed in the paper "Asa Gray and his quest for Shortia glaucifolia" [Arnoldia Vol. 2, 13-26. 1942]. Gray had seen a fragment of the plant in the Paris herbarium in 1838, and had long sought it in the wild in the mountains of North Carolina. It was not rediscovered until 1877.
[edit] References
- Pink, A. (2004). Gardening for the Million. Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11892.
- Gray, Asa. 1878. Shortia glaucifolia rediscovered. Amer. Journal of Science III 16:483-385.
[edit] External links
- "Shortia galacifolia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=23800.
- USDA Plants Profile: Shortia galacifolia
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