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Veratrum virginicum (Bunchflower)

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Attributes

Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [1]  All parts of the plant are highly toxic;
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [2]  Herb
Height [1]  5.576 feet (1.7 m)
View Plants For A Future Record : Veratrum virginicum

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Allegheny Portage Railroad Nat'l Hist. Site National Historic Site III 1152 Pennsylvania, United States
Gettysburg National Military Park V 3560 Pennsylvania, United States
Johnstown Flood National Memorial VI 175 Pennsylvania, United States
Moores Creek National Battlefield III 100 North Carolina, United States
Shenandoah National Park II 108221 Virginia, United States

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External References

USDA Plant Profile

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Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0