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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Gillenia stipulata   FAMILY Rosaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gillenia stipulata   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Gillenia stipulata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9 (2014)

Gillenia stipulata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Porteranthus stipulatus

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-13-002:

Gillenia stipulata   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Porteranthus stipulatus

 

COMMON NAME:
Midwestern Indian-physic, American Ipecac


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image of Gillenia stipulata, Midwestern Indian-physic, American Ipecac

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_post5_001_lvd

        

image of Gillenia stipulata, Midwestern Indian-physic, American Ipecac

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_gillenia_stipulata_2

June        

Five narrow petals about 1/2" long and often slightly unequal in length, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Gillenia stipulata, Midwestern Indian-physic, American Ipecac

JK Marlow    jkm080726_101

July    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

image of Gillenia stipulata, Midwestern Indian-physic, American Ipecac

JK Marlow    jkm080726_102

July    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Not the common Ipecac of modern medicine, which comes from Cephaelis, per www.missouriplants.com (Tenaglia).

image of Gillenia stipulata, Midwestern Indian-physic, American Ipecac

JK Marlow    jkm080726_105

July    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Both the leaflets and stipules are toothed, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Gillenia stipulata, Midwestern Indian-physic, American Ipecac

JK Marlow    jkm080726_110

July    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Capsules 4.5-5mm long, pubescent to glabrate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Gillenia stipulata, Midwestern Indian-physic, American Ipecac

JK Marlow    jkm160727_457

July    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Three lanceolate leaflets and 2 large stipules make the leaf look 5-parted, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).


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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Gillenia stipulata   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gillenia stipulata   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Gillenia stipulata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9
Gillenia stipulata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Porteranthus stipulatus

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-13-002:
Gillenia stipulata   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Porteranthus stipulatus

 

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611

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Dry to mesic woodlands and forests, especially over circumneutral soils derived from mafic rocks (such as diabase or greenstone) or calcareous rocks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Palmately compound: 3 leaflets
Alternate
Leaves subsessile

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White (sometimes pinkish)
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5 petals
20 stamens (enclosed in the throat of the hypanthium)

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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