Aletris aurea Walter. Common name: Golden Colic-root. Phenology: Late Apr-Jul; late Jun-Aug. Habitat: Pine savannas, seepage bogs, pine flatwoods. Distribution: S. MD south to ne. FL, Panhandle FL, west to e. TX and se. OK.
ID notes: Flowering several weeks later than A. farinosa when growing together.
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, C, ETx1, F, FNA26, G, GW1, K4, NcTx, NS, POWO, RAB, S, S13, Tx, Va, WH3, Ward (1978), Weigant (2002), Zomlefer (1997b); = n/a — Tat. Basionym: Aletris aurea Walter 1788
Links to other floras: = Aletris aurea - FNA26
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Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW
- Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACW
- Great Plains: FACW
Heliophily ⓘ: 8
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Scapose perennial from a short, thick rhizome, found in pine savannas, seepage bogs and pine flatwoods.
Stems: Stem an unbranched, mostly naked (a few small, linear bracts) flowering scape that rises from the center of a leaf rosette.
Leaves: Leaves in a flattish basal rosette, elliptic to lance-shaped, 3/4-3 in. long, bright green.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers in a single spike-like raceme at top of scape, yellow to orange-yellow, about 1/4 in. long, tubular-cylindric and lacking a constriction, nearly closed at the tip and granular on the outside.
Fruits:
Comments: Similar to Aletris lutea (pp. xx), whose pale yellow flowers are longer and are almost always open at the mouth of the corolla tube.
Height: 7-26 in.
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description: Scapose perennial from a short, thick rhizome, found in pine savannas, seepage bogs and pine flatwoods.
stems: Stem an unbranched, mostly naked (a few small, linear bracts) flowering scape that rises from the center of a leaf rosette.
leaves: Leaves in a flattish basal rosette, elliptic to lance-shaped, 3/4-3 in. long, bright green.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers in a single spike-like raceme at top of scape, yellow to orange-yellow, about 1/4 in. long, tubular-cylindric and lacking a constriction, nearly closed at the tip and granular on the outside.
fruits:
comments: Similar to Aletris lutea (pp. xx), whose pale yellow flowers are longer and are almost always open at the mouth of the corolla tube.
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