Flora of North America species comparison

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Asphodelus

asphodel, asphodelus
Habit Herbs, annual or perennial [or biennial], scapose, from swollen rhizomes.
Leaves

numerous, basal;

blade linear, cylindrical [or flat], base membranous, sheathing, margins entire.
Scape

hollow [or solid].
Inflorescences

racemose or paniculate, many-flowered, bracteate;

bracts persistent, narrowly lanceolate, scarious.
Flowers

tepals 6, erect to spreading, distinct or barely connate basally, equal, each with single prominent vein;

stamens 6, distinct, subequal [or equal], shorter than tepals;

filaments expanded at base;

anthers dorsifixed;

ovary 3-locular, ovules 1 or 2 per locule;

septal nectaries present;

style 1;

stigma weakly 3-lobed;

pedicel articulate.
Fruits

capsular, globose, hard, dehiscence loculicidal.
Seeds

3 or 6, black, angled [or winged].
x

= 13, 14.

Asphodelus
Distribution
from USDA
sw Europe; n Africa; sw Asia (India) [Introduced in North America; widely introduced elsewhere]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 12 (1 in the flora).

Sometimes placed in the segregate family Asphodelaceae, Asphodelus occurs mainly throughout the Mediterranean region, the Middle and Near East, and central Asia. Asphodelus ramosus Linnaeus has been collected once in the flora from ballast in New Jersey in 1879.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 26, p. 218. Authors: Gerald B. Straley†, Frederick H. Utech.
Parent taxa Liliaceae
Subordinate taxa
A. fistulosus
Name authority Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 309. (1753): Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 146. (1754)
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