North Carolina Wildflowers, Shrubs, & Trees

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Rosaceae > Aruncus (goats beard, brides feathers)
	Goats Beard, Brides Feathers (Aruncus dioicus) Along a mountain road in Madison Co., NC 9 June 2009 Common in the western half of NC in & around rich forests.
	Goats Beard, Brides Feathers (Aruncus dioicus) Along a mountain road in Madison Co., NC 9 June 2009
	Goats Beard, Brides Feathers (Aruncus dioicus) Jackson Co., NC 14 May 2006 This is the host plant for the Dusky Azure, a rare butterfly of the south-central Appalachians.
	Goats Beard, Brides Feathers (Aruncus dioicus) Along a mountain road in Madison Co., NC 9 June 2009 Vegetatively resembling the genus Astilbe, Aruncus can be distinguished by its usually unlobed terminal leaflets and lack of glandular hairs.
	Goats Beard, Brides Feathers (Aruncus dioicus) Along a mountain road in Madison Co., NC 9 June 2009
	Goats Beard, Brides Feathers (Aruncus dioicus) Along a mountain road in Madison Co., NC 9 June 2009

Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; Alan Weakley's Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Supplemental resources include USDA plants website, and NatureServe.