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Family	Scientific Name	Common Name	Habitat	Distribution	Image
Melanthiaceae	Amianthium	Fly-poison
Melanthiaceae	Amianthium muscitoxicum	Fly-poison	In a wide variety of mesic to dry forests, pine savannas, longleaf pine sandhills, meadows, from 5 m to at least 1600 m in elevation.	S. NY, PA, MO, and OK, south to Panhandle FL, MS, and AR.
Melanthiaceae	Anticlea	Death-camas
Melanthiaceae	Anticlea glauca	White Death-camas, Mountain Death-camas	Limestone and dolostone woodlands, glades, cliffs, and outcrops.	NB west to ND, south to w. NC, TN, and MO.
Melanthiaceae	Melanthiaceae	Bunchflower Family
Melanthiaceae	Melanthium	Bunchflower
Melanthiaceae	Melanthium hybridum	Crisped Bunchflower	Moist to dry forests, usually in base-rich soils.	CT south to NC, SC, n. GA, and c. AL; disjunct west of the Mississippi River in nc. AR.
Melanthiaceae	Melanthium parviflorum	Mountain Bunchflower	Moist to rather dry forests, up to at least 1700 meters, most frequent in oak forests at middle elevations.	A Southern Appalachian endemic: e. and sc. WV and KY south to VA, w. NC, e. TN, n. GA, and n. AL.
Melanthiaceae	Melanthium virginicum	Bog Bunchflower, Virginia Bunchflower	Pine savannas, bogs, fens, seeps, wet seepage-fed forests.	S. NY, PA, OH, IN, IL, and IA south to c. peninsular FL and e. TX.
Melanthiaceae	Melanthium woodii	Ozark Bunchflower, Wood's False-hellebore	Circumneutral soil of woodlands over mafic rocks (such as amphibolite) or other calcareous substrates, hammocks.	Primarily Ozarkian, but extending in scattered populations eastward as far as FL Panhandle (Gadsden and Liberty counties), sw. GA, nw. GA, sc. TN, nw. SC (Pickens County), and sw. NC (Polk County).
Melanthiaceae	Schoenocaulon	Feathershank
Melanthiaceae	Schoenocaulon dubium	Florida Feathershank	Dry pine savannas, longleaf pine sandhills, Florida scrub.	S. GA and n. peninsular FL south to s. peninsular FL.
Melanthiaceae	Schoenocaulon ghiesbreghtii	Green Feathershank, Green-lily, Drummond's Sabadilla	Prairies, other open situations.	S. TX south to s. Mexico (CHP, VER, YUC).
Melanthiaceae	Schoenocaulon texanum	Texas Feather-shank, Texas Sabadilla	Rocky grasslands, thin soils over limestone.	S. and c. TX west to se. NM, south into Mexico (CHH, COA, DGO, NLE, SLP, TAM, ZAC).
Melanthiaceae	Stenanthium	Featherbells, Featherfleece
Melanthiaceae	Stenanthium densum	Crow-poison, Osceola-plume	Pine savannas, pine flatwoods.	Se. VA south to c. peninsular FL and west to s. MS, on the Coastal Plain.
Melanthiaceae	Stenanthium diffusum	Rockhouse Featherbells	Sandstone rockhouses.	Endemic to the Cumberland Plateau of ne. TN (known from Fentress, Morgan, Pickett, Scott counties).
Melanthiaceae	Stenanthium gramineum var. gramineum	Featherbells	Dry and mesic forests and woodlands, grassy balds, serpentine barrens, to at least 1700m in elevation.	PA west to IL and MO, south to ne. NC, Panhandle FL, and TX.
Melanthiaceae	Stenanthium gramineum var. robustum	Bog Featherbells	Bogs and wet meadows.	PA west to IN, south to w. NC.
Melanthiaceae	Stenanthium leimanthoides	Pinebarrens Death-camas	High elevation rock outcrops, shrub balds, seepage areas at high elevations, fens, bogs in the Coastal Plain.	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. 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!
Melanthiaceae	Stenanthium tennesseense	Tennessee Death-camas	Wet meadows.	Endemic to sc. TN (Cumberland Plateau and Eastern Highland Rim).
Melanthiaceae	Stenanthium texanum	Crow-poison, Black Death-camas	Pine savannas, pine flatwoods.	FL Panhandle and s. GA west to e. TX, on the Coastal Plain.
Melanthiaceae	Toxicoscordion	Poison Camas
Melanthiaceae	Toxicoscordion nuttallii	Nuttall’s Poison Camas	Calcareous glades and prairies, woodlands.	S. MO, and KS south to n. LA and e. and c. TX. The report from MS is false.
Melanthiaceae	Veratrum	White-hellebore
Melanthiaceae	Veratrum viride	White-hellebore, Indian Poke, Green Hellebore, Cornhusk Lily, "Skunk Cabbage"	Seeps, streambanks, wet boulderfields.	QC and ON south in the mountains to NC, TN, and ne. GA.
Melanthiaceae	Zigadenus	Death-camas
Melanthiaceae	Zigadenus glaberrimus	Large Death-camas, Snakeroot	Sandhill seepage bogs, pine savannas, pocosin edges.	Se. VA south to Panhandle FL, west to MS, on the Coastal Plain.