North Carolina Wildflowers

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Araceae>Orontium

Golden Club (Orontium aquaticum)
Moore Co., NC 10 Apr 04

Essentially statewide in wet areas, but more common in the coastal plain, this species blooms in the Spring.
Golden Club (Orontium aquaticum)
Moore Co., NC 10 Apr 04
Golden Club (Orontium aquaticum)
Gum Swamp Lake, Richmond Co., NC
28 Apr 2019

Last fall's hurricane blew out the dam, so semi-aquatic plants are flowering on dry land

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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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