Taenidia montana (Mackenzie) Cronquist. Common name: Mountain Pimpernel, Shale-barren Pimpernel. Phenology: May-Jun. Habitat: Shale barrens and rocky woodlands over shale, greenstone, calcareous sandstone, and other calcareous and mafic rocks. Distribution: A Central Appalachian endemic: w. VA and e. WV north to w. MD and sc. PA.
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Synonymy ⓘ: = C, K4, Pa, Va, Cronquist (1982); = n/a — S13; = Pseudotaenidia montana Mack. — F, G, MC, W, WV, Plunkett et al (2018a) in Kadereit & Bittrich (2018). Basionym: Pseudotaenidia montana Mack. 1903
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Heliophily ⓘ: 8
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