Clintonia umbellulata (Michx.) Morong

Locations ofClintonia umbellulata (Michx.) Morong in Virginia

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Family
Liliaceae
Botanical Name
Clintonia umbellulata (Michx.) Morong
Common Name
Speckled Wood Lily, White Clintonia
Synonym(s)
Flora of Virginia Name/Status
Clintonia umbellulata (Michx.) Morong
Comments
Plants known as Clintonia alleghaniensis Harned, allegedly differing from C. umbellulata in its ultramarine-blue berry (vs. black), is known from a number of sites in Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia. It has been variously interpreted as a species, a hybrid of C. borealis and C. umbellulata, or merely an odd form of C. umbellulata.
Habitat
Northern red oak forests, montane mixed oak and oak-hickory forests, and cove forests; less commonly in northern hardwood forests, oak/heath forests, seepage swamps, and montane alluvial forests; occurs in both nutrient-poor and base-rich soils, generally at lower elevations than Clintonia borealis, although the two species sometimes occur together. Frequent to common in the mountains, rare in the far sw. Piedmont.
Native Status
Native

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