Zenobia
Zenobia pulverulenta
honeycup
dusty zenobia, honey-cup, honeycups
erect, twigs glabrous.
deciduous to semipersistent;
blade elliptic to elliptic-ovate or ovate, coriaceous, margins irregularly and shallowly serrulate-crenulate or entire, plane, surfaces finely hairy, glabrescent;
venation reticulodromous or brochidodromous.
petiole 3–6 mm;
blade 2–8(–10) × (0.5–)1.2–4.5 cm, base cuneate to rounded, apex acute, apiculate, rounded, or retuse.
axillary racemes of (2–)5–12-flowered corymbs, or solitary flowers, borne on leafless stems.
bracteoles absent.
sepals 5, distinct, ovate to ovate-deltate;
petals 5, connate ca. 3/4 their lengths, white, corolla broadly campanulate, lobes much shorter than tube;
stamens 10, included;
filaments straight, flattened, dilated proximally, glabrous, without spurs;
anthers with 4 awns, dehiscent by oblong pores, (disintegration tissue present in connective);
pistil 5-carpellate;
ovary 5-locular;
stigma truncate.
fragrant;
sepal lobes triangular;
corolla 6.5–10 mm; nectariferous disc 10-lobed;
ovary 5-lobed.
capsular, 5-valved, depressed-globose, dry.
erect, 3.2–5 × 4.8–6.5 mm.
40–200, ovoid;
testa smooth.
ca. 1 × 0.5 mm, not winged.
= 11.
= ca. 66.
Zenobia
Zenobia pulverulenta
Species 1: se United States.
Species 1
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Some forms of Zenobia pulverulenta have been recognized. Plants with glaucous leaves and twigs occur primarily in the Sandhills region of North Carolina and South Carolina (inner coastal plain); nonglaucous plants occur primarily eastward. Zenobia is cultivated occasionally outside its native range as far north as Massachusetts. It is particularly appropriate for garden areas with wet soil. The flowers are anise-scented.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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