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Appalachian oak-leech

Aureolaria levigata

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in West Virginia.January 7, February 8, March 10, April 17, May 25, June 14, July 10, August 8, September 10, October 9, November 6, December 6.
United States545
West Virginia132
Virginia104
Pennsylvania71
Maryland64
North Carolina49
Tennessee42
Kentucky30
New York27
Ohio11

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
  • ParasiteDescends from a lineage whose members commonly live parasitically on another organism.Inferred from its group

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderMints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies · Lamiales
Familybroomrape family · Orobanchaceae
Genusyellow false foxgloves · Aureolaria

Sources

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