Aletris obovata
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Aletris obovata, southern colicroot or white colic-root, is a plant species native to the southeastern United States (Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia).[1][2][1][3][4]
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.[5][6]
References
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
- ^ Victoria I. Sullivan. 1973. Biosystematics of Aletris lutea Small, Aletris obovata Nash, and Natural Hybrids (Liliaceae). Brittonia 25(3):294-303
- ^ Govaerts, R., Wilkin, P. & Saunders, R.M.K. (2007). World Checklist of Dioscoreales. Yams and their allies: 1-65. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- ^ Flora of North America Vol. 26 Page 66 Aletris obovata Nash
- ^ Native Florida Wildflowers, White Colic-root - Aletris obovata
