Flora of North America species comparison

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Aletris obovata

southern colicroot, white colic-root
Leaves

3–13 × 1–2.8 cm;

blade bright green, elliptic to lanceolate.
Scape

4–7 dm.
Flowers

perianth white to creamy white, sometimes tipped with orange or pinkish orange, campanulate or obovoid, 7–11 mm, lobes turned slightly inward (see note under 4.
Fruits

beaks abruptly narrowed distally.
Aletris

lutea).
2n

= 26. 

Aletris obovata
Phenology Flowering late spring–mid summer.
Habitat Moist pine flatwoods and savannas, roadside ditches
Elevation 0–100 m (0–300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; FL; GA; MS; SC
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Source FNA vol. 26, p. 66.
Parent taxa Liliaceae > Aletris
Sibling taxa
A. aurea, A. bracteata, A. farinosa, A. lutea
Name authority Nash ex Small: in J. K. Small, Fl. S.E. U.S., 286. (1903)
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