Lachnanthes caroliana
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Robert H. Mohlenbrock @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA SCS. 1991.Southern wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. |
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913.¬ƯAn illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 531. |
| Botanical name: | Lachnanthes caroliana |
| Common name: | redroot |
| Group: | monocot |
| Family: | Haemodoraceae |
| Growth type: | forb/herb |
| Duration: | perennial |
| Origin: | native |
| Plant height: | 4 - 18" |
| Foliage: | fleshy, deep red roots; stout erect stem with pointed narrow leaves, clustered at base |
| Flower: | dull yellow, 1/2" long |
| Flowering time: | blooms late June to September, mostly July; fruits late August to September |
| Habitat: | swamps and bogs; considered a weed in cranberry bogs |
| Range in New Jersey: | throughout the Pine Barrens including Cape May County |
| Heritage ranking, if any: | n/a |
| Distribution: |  |
| Misc. | Stone, in 1910, says, "Unlike many other bog plants, this species
is not injured by the cultivation and flooding of the cranberry bogs;
on the contrary, it increases under these conditions until it becomes a
positive weed, and great heaps of the plants are often to be seen
stacked up on the dykes after the weeding of the bog. It bears a
resemblance to Lophiola, but is not so delicate in color, the wooly
covering being always duller and more rusty"(355). |