Streptopus amplexifolius (Linnaeus) A.P. de Candolle. Common name: White Mandarin, Pagoda-bells. Phenology: Late Apr-early Jun; late Jul-Sep. Habitat: Moist forests and seepages at high elevations. Distribution: The species is circumboreal, the range fragmented.
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Taxonomy Comments: Fassett recognized seven varieties, the plants in our area being var. americanus. The species ranges from Greenland and NL (Labrador) to MN, south (in the mountains and disjunctly) to NC, and in the west from AK (and Kamchatka) south to NM and AZ, in Japan, and in the Alps in Europe.
Synonymy ⓘ: = Can, FNA26, K4, NE, NS, NY, Pa, POWO, RAB, S13, Tn, Va, W; > Streptopus amplexifolius (L.) DC. var. americanus J.A. & Schult.f. — C, F, G, Fassett (1935); > Streptopus amplexifolius (L.) DC. var. amplexifolius; > Streptopus amplexifolius (L.) DC. var. denticulatus Fassett — F, Fassett (1935); > Streptopus amplexifolius (L.) DC. var. oreopolus (Fernald) Fassett — F, Fassett (1935); < Tortipes amplexifolius (L.) Small — S. Basionym: Uvularia amplexifolia L. 1753
Links to other floras: = Streptopus amplexifolius - 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: FAC (name change)
Heliophily ⓘ: 1
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Upright to leaning perennial found in moist forests and seepages at high elevations.
Stems: Stems simple or with forked branches, zigzagging and mostly smooth.
Leaves: Leaves alternate, sessile, oval to lance-shaped with a heart-shaped, clasping base, 2-6 in. long.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers solitary and dangling on thin, kinked stalks from leaf axils, greenish-white (sometimes rose-tinted), bell-shaped and consisting of 6 recurved, lance-shaped tepals.
Fruits: Fruit a red, ellipsoid berry.
Comments:
Height: 10-36 in.
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description: Upright to leaning perennial found in moist forests and seepages at high elevations.
stems: Stems simple or with forked branches, zigzagging and mostly smooth.
leaves: Leaves alternate, sessile, oval to lance-shaped with a heart-shaped, clasping base, 2-6 in. long.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers solitary and dangling on thin, kinked stalks from leaf axils, greenish-white (sometimes rose-tinted), bell-shaped and consisting of 6 recurved, lance-shaped tepals.
fruits: Fruit a red, ellipsoid berry.
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