Cryptotaenia canadensis (Linnaeus) A.P. de Candolle. Common name: Honewort, Wild Chervil. Phenology: May-Jun; Jun-Aug. Habitat: Moist and nutrient-rich forests (alluvial, bottomland, slope, and cove forests). Distribution: NB and QC to MB, south to e. GA, sw. GA, Panhandle FL, AL, and TX.
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Taxonomy Comments: Closely related to C. japonica Hasskarl of e. Asia, which has sometimes been subsumed within it.
Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, Can, F, Fl7, FNA13, GrPl, GW2, Il, K4, MC, Mi, Mo2, NcTx, NE, NY, Ok, Pa, RAB, Tat, Tn, Tx, Va, WH3, WV; = Deringa canadensis (L.) Kuntze — S, S13, illegitimate; < Cryptotaenia canadensis (L.) DC. — C, G; Sison canadense Linnaeus. Basionym: Sison canadense L. 1753
Links to other floras: = Cryptotaenia canadensis - FNA13; = Cryptotaenia canadensis - FNA13
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Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FAC
- Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FAC
- Great Plains: FAC
- Midwest: FAC
- Northcentral & Northeast: FAC
Heliophily ⓘ: 3
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Erect perennial of moist, nutrient-rich forests, such as alluvial, bottomland, slope and cove forests.
Stems: Stems slender, branched, smooth.
Leaves: Leaves alternate, on petioles with sheathing bases, divided into 3 oval or diamond-shaped, toothed leaflets that are 1 1/2-3 in. long (these sometimes further lobed) and smooth.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers in open, sparsely flowered umbels at top of stem and from upper leaf axils, white, minute, consisting of 5 tiny petals.
Fruits: Fruit a joined pair of blackish, very slender, ribbed seeds.
Comments:
Height: 1-3 ft.
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description: Erect perennial of moist, nutrient-rich forests, such as alluvial, bottomland, slope and cove forests.
stems: Stems slender, branched, smooth.
leaves: Leaves alternate, on petioles with sheathing bases, divided into 3 oval or diamond-shaped, toothed leaflets that are 1 1/2-3 in. long (these sometimes further lobed) and smooth.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers in open, sparsely flowered umbels at top of stem and from upper leaf axils, white, minute, consisting of 5 tiny petals.
fruits: Fruit a joined pair of blackish, very slender, ribbed seeds.
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native range: eastern North America
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