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Stenanthiumleimanthoides (A. Gray) Zomlefer & Judd. Pinebarrens Death-camas. Phen: Jul-Aug; Sep-Oct. Hab: High elevation rock outcrops, shrub balds, seepage areas at high elevations, fens, bogs in the Coastal Plain. Dist: As currently interpreted, with a peculiar and disjunct range, occurring on the Coastal Plain of se. NY (Long Island), NJ, and DE, in the mountains from WV and VA south through w. NC to ne. GA.
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Other Comments:S. leimanthoides (in the strict sense of Sorrie & Weakley 2017) follows much the same phytogeographic patterns as Kalmia buxifolia and Xerophyllum asphodeloides; the 3 species occurring together in the Pine Barrens of the s. NJ Coastal Plain and at 1900 m elevation on the summit of Grandfather Mountain, Avery County, NC!
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Horticultural Information
Intro:Erect perennial from a bulb found on high-elevation rock outcrops, shrub balds, seepage areas at high elevations, fens, and in the Coastal Plain in sandhill bogs and wet pine savannas.
Stems:Stems unbranched, smooth with a whitish coating.
Leaves:Leaves mostly basal and clustered, linear/grass-like, 8-22 in. long, with a sparse whitish coating; stem leaves gradually reduced upward.
Inforescence:
Flowers:Flowers in a terminal panicle, white to greenish-white, about â…“ in. wide, consisting of 6 spreading, oblong-oval tepals with rounded to blunt tips, each with a single yellowish gland at the base.
Fruits:Fruit an oval-conical, 3-lobed capsule with spreading beaks.
Comments:
Height:3-5 ft.
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description:Erect perennial from a bulb found on high-elevation rock outcrops, shrub balds, seepage areas at high elevations, fens, and in the Coastal Plain in sandhill bogs and wet pine savannas.
stems:Stems unbranched, smooth with a whitish coating.
leaves:Leaves mostly basal and clustered, linear/grass-like, 8-22 in. long, with a sparse whitish coating; stem leaves gradually reduced upward.
inflorescence:
flowers:Flowers in a terminal panicle, white to greenish-white, about â…“ in. wide, consisting of 6 spreading, oblong-oval tepals with rounded to blunt tips, each with a single yellowish gland at the base.
fruits:Fruit an oval-conical, 3-lobed capsule with spreading beaks.
