Streptopus amplexifolius |
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clasp-leaf twisted-stalk, clasping twisted-stalk, clasping-leaf twistedstalk, cucumber root, white twisted-stalk |
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Habit | Plants from thick rhizomes. |
Stems | freely branched, stout, 5–12 dm, often with reddish hairs basally, nodes not fringed. |
Leaves | 5–15 × 2.5–6 cm; blade ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, base cordate-clasping, apex acuminate; peduncle: junction with pedicel abrupt, with glands indicating transition, entire structure 2–5 cm, glands short-stalked. |
Flowers | 1–2 per axil; perianth campanulate; tepals spreading, recurved at tips, white to greenish yellow, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 9–15 mm; stamens unequal, outer shorter, 0.8–1 mm, inner 2–3 mm; anthers lanceolate, 3–3.5 mm, apex 1-pointed; style stout, 4–5 mm; stigma fused from base to tip, unlobed; combined peduncles and pedicels recurved, 2–5 cm, short-stalked glands indicating transition; pedicel sharply geniculate, glabrous. |
Berries | whitish green maturing to yellowish orange or red, ellipsoid, 10–12 mm. |
Seeds | 2.5–3 mm. |
2n | = 16, 32. |
Streptopus amplexifolius |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–mid summer. |
Habitat | Rich moist coniferous and deciduous woods |
Elevation | 0–2800 m (0–9200 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; AZ; CA; CO; CT; ID; MA; ME; MI; MN; MT; NC; NH; NM; NY; OR; PA; SD; TN; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NL; NS; NT; ON; PE; QC; SK; YT; SPM; Greenland; Eurasia
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Discussion | Several poorly defined races described by N. C. Fassett (1935) as varieties based chiefly on minute difference in leaf-margin serration are not here recognized. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 146. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Streptopus |
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Synonyms | Uvularia amplexifolia, S. amplexifolius subsp. americanus, S. amplexifolius var. americanus, S. amplexifolius var. chalazatus, S. amplexifolius var. denticulatus, S. amplexifolius var. grandiflorus, S. fassettii, Tortipes amplexifolius |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) de Candolle: in J. Lamarck and A. P. de Candolle, Fl. Franç. ed. 3, 3: 174. (1805) |
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