Prosartes maculata
| Spotted Mandarin nodding mandarin | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Liliales |
| Family: | Liliaceae |
| Genus: | Prosartes |
| Species: | P. maculata |
| Binomial name | |
| Prosartes maculata (Buckley) A. Gray | |
Prosartes maculata (formerly Disporum maculatum) is a member of the lily family with the common name Spotted Mandarin or Nodding Mandarin.[1][2] It is a perennial plant that flowers in the spring.[3][4][5]
It is a native plant of the Great Smoky Mountains and occurs in other parts of the Appalachian region from northeastern Alabama to southern West Virginia and southern Ohio. Isolated populations are also reported from near Detroit, Michigan.[6]
References
- ↑ efloras
- ↑ Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, Duhl, Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians, Lone Pine Publishing, (2005) p 413, ISBN 978-1-55105-428-5,
- ↑ Buckley, Samuel Botsford. 1843. American Journal of Science, and Arts 45(1): 170–171, as Streptopus maculatus
- ↑ Gray, Asa. 1844. American Journal of Science, and Arts 47(1): 201, Prosartes maculata
- ↑ Britton, Nathaniel Lord. 1888. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 15(7): 188, as Disporum maculatum
- ↑ Biota of North America Program
