Apocynum androsaemifolium Linnaeus. Common name: Spreading Dogbane. Phenology: Jun-Aug; Sep-Oct. Habitat: Forests, woodlands, prairies, flood-scour, roadsides, pastures. Distribution: NL (Newfoundland) to BC south to w. NC, nw. SC (Bradley et al. [in prep.]), c. GA, TX, AZ, and n. Mexico (CHH, COA, SON).
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, C, Can, F, FNA14, GrPl, K4, Mex, Mi, Mo2, NE, NY, Pa, RAB, S, Tat, Tn, Tx, Va, W; > Apocynum androsaemifolium L. var. androsaemifolium — G, Il, Woodson (1930); > Apocynum androsaemifolium L. var. glabrum Macoun — G; > Apocynum androsaemifolium L. var. incanum A.DC. — Il, Woodson (1930). Basionym: Apocynum androsaemifolium L. 1753
Links to other floras: = Apocynum androsaemifolium - FNA14
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Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: UPL
- Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACU
- Great Plains: UPL
- Midwest: UPL
- Northcentral & Northeast: UPL
Heliophily ⓘ: 7
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Erect or ascending, widely branching to bushy perennial found in moist to dry forests, woodlands and clearings.
Stems: Stems with loosely ascending branches, smooth.
Leaves: Leaves opposite, loosely spreading or drooping on slender petioles, oval to oval-oblong, to 3½ in. long, smooth.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers in large clusters at tips of branches and smaller ones in leaf axils, flowering simultaneously; white often pink-tinged or pink with red stripes inside; less than ½ in long; tubular-bell-shaped with 5 spreading to recurved corolla lobes; fragrant.
Fruits: Fruit a dangling pair of cylindrical-linear, slightly curved follicles containing silky-tufted seeds.
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Height: 1-3 ft.
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description: Erect or ascending, widely branching to bushy perennial found in moist to dry forests, woodlands and clearings.
stems: Stems with loosely ascending branches, smooth.
leaves: Leaves opposite, loosely spreading or drooping on slender petioles, oval to oval-oblong, to 3½ in. long, smooth.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers in large clusters at tips of branches and smaller ones in leaf axils, flowering simultaneously; white often pink-tinged or pink with red stripes inside; less than ½ in long; tubular-bell-shaped with 5 spreading to recurved corolla lobes; fragrant.
fruits: Fruit a dangling pair of cylindrical-linear, slightly curved follicles containing silky-tufted seeds.
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