Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
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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). |
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