Conopholis americana
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Photo courtesy Renee Brecht |
Britton & Brown |
| Botanical name: | Conopholis americana (L.) Wallr. |
| Common name: | Squawroot; American cancer-root |
| Synonomy: | Orobanche¬Żamericana¬ŻL. |
| Group: | dicot |
| Family: | Orobanchaceae |
| Growth type: | forb/herb |
| Duration: | perennial |
| Origin: | native |
| Plant height: | 3 - 8" |
| Flower: | yellow-brown, 1/2 - 3/4" long |
| Flowering time: | late May to late June |
| Habitat: | woods, generally under Quercus (oak trees) |
| Range in New Jersey: | rare and local in woods north Jersey; old record from Camden County |
| Heritage ranking, if any: | n/a |
| Distribution: |  |
| Misc. | a root parasite, usually at the base of the trunk on Quercus. AAccording to Stone in 1910, occurence in Southern Jersey rest on the "indefinite statement in Britton's Catalogue on authority of C.F. Parker for Camden Co. The Swedesboro record in Keller and Brown's List was an error of comilation, as Mr. Lippincott's specimens were really from a Pennsylvania locality"(695). |