Zigadenus glaberrimus Michaux. Common name: Large Death-camas, Snakeroot. Phenology: Late Jun-early Sep; Aug-Nov. Habitat: Sandhill seepage bogs, pine savannas, pocosin edges. Distribution: Se. VA south to Panhandle FL, west to MS, on the Coastal Plain.
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Synonymy ⓘ: = C, F, FNA26, GW1, K4, NS, POWO, RAB, Tx, Va, WH3, Zomlefer (1997a); = Zygadenus glaberrimus Michx. — G, S, S13, orthographic variant. Basionym: Zigadenus glaberrimus Michx. 1803
Links to other floras: = Zigadenus glaberrimus - FNA26
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Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW
Heliophily ⓘ: 8
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Erect perennial from a blackish horizontal rhizome, often growing in clumps, in sandhill seepage bogs, pine savannas and on pocosin edges.
Stems: Stems obscurely 3-angled and smooth.
Leaves: Leaves basal, ascending, lance-shaped, 3-5 in. long and keeled on the underside.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers in a loosely pyramidal panicle with smooth, ascending branches; off-white; composed of 6 oval to lance-shaped, sharp-tipped tepals, each with 2 distinctive dot-shaped glands near the base.
Fruits: Fruit an oval to conic capsule that becomes reddish brown and persists through winter.
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Height: 1-3.5 ft.
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description: Erect perennial from a blackish horizontal rhizome, often growing in clumps, in sandhill seepage bogs, pine savannas and on pocosin edges.
stems: Stems obscurely 3-angled and smooth.
leaves: Leaves basal, ascending, lance-shaped, 3-5 in. long and keeled on the underside.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers in a loosely pyramidal panicle with smooth, ascending branches; off-white; composed of 6 oval to lance-shaped, sharp-tipped tepals, each with 2 distinctive dot-shaped glands near the base.
fruits: Fruit an oval to conic capsule that becomes reddish brown and persists through winter.
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native range: southeastern United States
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