North Carolina Wildflowers

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Liliaceae>Polygonatum

Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum biflorum) Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum biflorum)
Buncombe Co., NC
8 July 2006

Common and statewide in NC, this genus was formerly placed in the Liliaceae.

Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum biflorum) Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum biflorum)
Buncombe Co., NC
8 July 2006

Common and statewide in NC. Two flowers are pendant in the axils of the leaves. Shown here are young fruit.


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Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.


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