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Melanthiaceae > Zigadenus (deathcamas, star lily) | |
White Camas, Mountain Deathcamus (Zigadenus glaucus, Anticlea glauca) Wilderness State Park, Emmet Co., MI 22 Aug 2008 Recent authors have place this species in the genus Aticlea. Others treat this taxon at the subspecific level as Zigadenus elegans ssp. glaucus. In North Carolina, this plant is rare and is found mostly on high pH soils in a few places in the mountains. | |
White Camas, Mountain Deathcamus (Zigadenus glaucus, Anticlea glauca) Wilderness State Park, Emmet Co., MI 22 Aug 2008 As the common name implies, this plant is toxic and should never be eaten. | |
White Camas, Mountain Deathcamus (Zigadenus glaucus, Anticlea glauca) Wilderness State Park, Emmet Co., MI 22 Aug 2008 | |
White Camas, Mountain Deathcamus (Zigadenus glaucus, Anticlea glauca) Wilderness State Park, Emmet Co., MI 22 Aug 2008 |
Sandbog Deathcamas (Zigadenus glaberrimus) Carteret Co., NC 26 Aug 2006 Fairly common in pine savannas and a few other coastal plain habitats in NC. | |
Sandbog Deathcamas (Zigadenus glaberrimus) Carteret Co., NC 26 Aug 2006 Formerly in the Liliaceae, many authorities now place Zigadenus in the Melianthaceae. |
Sandbog Deathcamas (Zigadenus glaberrimus) Carteret Co., NC 26 Aug 2006 Like all members of the genus, this plant is toxic. |
Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; Alan Weakley's Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Supplemental resources include USDA plants website, and NatureServe.
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