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Anticlea glauca Kunth. White Death-camas, Mountain Death-camas. Phen: Jul-Aug; Sep-Oct. Hab: Limestone and dolostone woodlands, glades, cliffs, and outcrops. Dist: NB west to ND, south to w. NC, TN, and MO.

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Taxonomy Comments: A. glauca is the more eastern component of a complex variously treated as two species or a single variable species, with or without recognized varieties or subspecies. A. elegans (in the broadest sense) ranges from QC and NY west to AK, south to n. OH, n. IN, n. IL, MO, IA, NM, AZ, and n. Mexico; disjunct in the mountains of w. VA, e. WV, and w. NC. Two taxa have often been recognized, at the specific, subspecific, or varietal level. The more eastern taxon (epithet ‘glauca’ – see synonymy below) ranges from NB west to ND, south to w. NC, TN, and MO, and is distinguished by glaucous foliage, paniculate inflorescences, and tepals often purplish or brownish basally. The more western taxon (epithet ‘elegans’), occurring east to the MN and MO, has the foliage greener, the inflorescence often only racemose, and the tepals yellow.

Synonymy ⓘ: = Tn, Va; = Anticlea elegans (Pursh) Rydb. ssp. glauca (Nutt.) A.Haines – K3, K4; = Anticlea elegans (Pursh) Rydb. ssp. glaucus (Nutt.) A.Haines – NE, orthographic error; = Anticlea elegans (Pursh) Rydb. var. glauca (Nutt.) Zomlefer & Judd – NY; = Anticlea elegans (Pursh) Rydb. var. glaucus (Nutt.) Zomlefer & Judd – Mi, orthographic error; = Zigadenus elegans Pursh ssp. glaucus (Nutt.) Hultén – K1, Mo1; = Zigadenus elegans Pursh var. glaucus (Nutt.) Preece – C; = Zigadenus glaucus Nutt. – F, Pa, RAB, W, Zomlefer (1997a); = Zygadenus glaucus – G; < Anticlea chlorantha (Richardson) Rydb. – S, misapplied; < Anticlea elegans (Pursh) Rydb. – Zomlefer & Judd (2002); < Zigadenus elegans Pursh – FNA26, Il

Links to other floras: < Zigadenus elegans - FNA26

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FAC (name change)
  • Great Plains: FACW (name change)
  • Midwest: FAC (name change)
  • Northcentral & Northeast: FACW (name change)

Heliophily ⓘ: 7

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