North Carolina Wildflowers

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Liliaceae>Aletris

Colic-root (Aletris farinosa) Southern Cloudywing on Colic-root (Aletris farinosa)
Alamance Co., NC 6 June 2004

Spring to Summer blooming and statewide in NC, Colic-root is a good nectar source for butterflies.
Colic-root (Aletris farinosa) Colic-root (Aletris farinosa)
Alleghany Co., NC
1 July 2006
Colic-root (Aletris farinosa) Colic-root (Aletris farinosa)
Alleghany Co., NC
1 July 2006

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Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.


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