Flora of North America species comparison

The green links below add additional plants to the comparison table. Blue links lead to other Web sites.
enable glossary links

Illicium floridanum

anis étiolé, Florida anise-tree, Florida-anise
Leaves

blade dark olive-green, elliptic to lanceolate, 5-21 × 1.5-6 cm, base cuneate, apex acute to acuminate.
Flowers

2.5-5 cm diam.;

peduncle 1-11 cm;

bracteoles 3-6;

tepals 21-33, red-maroon, rarely white or pink, inner tepals ligulate;

stamens 25-50;

pistils 11-21.
Fruit

aggregates collectively 2.5-4 cm diam., usually with 10-15 pistils at maturity.
Seeds

pale brown.
2n

= 26.

Illicium floridanum
Phenology Flowering midspring–early summer.
Habitat Along streams, in marshy areas, moist woods
Elevation 0-500 m (0-1600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; FL; GA; LA; MS; ne Mexico
[WildflowerSearch map]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Illicium floridanum was placed in Illicium sect. Badiana by A. C. Smith (1947). The flowers of the species are pollinated by a variety of insects; fruit set is low (L. B. Thien et al. 1983). The seeds are dispersed by explosive dehiscence of the follicles (M. L. Roberts and R. R. Haynes 1983).

This species is cultivated in southeastern United States (M. A. Dirr 1986) and elsewhere. Illicium mexicanum A. C. Smith was considered a separate species by A. C. Smith (1947); expressions of all characters used to differentiate the two species overlap, however, and it seems best to consider them conspecific.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 3.
Parent taxa Illiciaceae > Illicium
Sibling taxa
I. parviflorum
Synonyms Badianifera floridana, I. mexicanum
Name authority J. Ellis: Philos. Trans. 60: 524. (1770)
Web links 
Unless otherwise noted, all data comes from the online version of the Flora of North America, who have made most of their content available via a Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0).



Type/paste one or more Latin names into the boxes above; matching taxa will show up below the box as you type. You can use the up/down arrow keys to move through the list.

(If the plant you're looking for doesn't show up in the auto-complete list, that means it either isn't described in Flora of North America yet, or it's listed under a synonym. And please note that Flora of North America is still missing several plant families, including Fabaceae, Apiaceae, Boraginaceae, and Polemoniaceae.)

Choose a data source: Flora of North America

The species comparison tool is brought to you by:
Northwest Wildflowers