Trepocarpus aethusae
(Whitenymph)
Trepocarpus aethusae, Wildflower Center, Austin, Travis Co. 3814
Trepocarpus aethusae, Wildflower Center, Austin, Travis Co. 3837
Trepocarpus aethusae, Wildflower Center, Austin, Travis Co. 3821
Trepocarpus aethusae, Wildflower Center, Austin, Travis Co. 3818
| Scientific Name | Trepocarpus aethusae | USDA PLANTS Symbol | TRAE2 |
| Common Name | Whitenymph | ITIS Taxonomic Serial No. | 29899 |
| Family | Apiaceae (Parsley) | SEINet Reference |
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| Description | Habitat: Moist to wet areas in clearings, forests, marshy meadows, ditches. Plant: Upright, slender, smooth annual, 12 to 28 inches tall, with a few branches. Leaves: Compound leaves 3 to 4 inches long overall, multiply-pinnately-divided or dissected; ultimate leaflets flat and narrowly linear. Inflorescence: Clusters of very small white flowers in compound umbels in leaf axils and at stem tips, each umbel bearing 2 to 4 ultimate umbels, each with 2 to 8 flowers atop long floral tubes subtended by bracts; each blossom about 1/16 to 1/8-inch across with 5 white petals and filaments, yellowish anthers. Bloom Period: April to June. Fruit: Strongly-ribbed, smooth, slightly flattened across, about 3/8-inch long. References: Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southeastern United States: Dicotyledons by Godfrey and Wooten and "Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas" by Correll and Johnston |
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Texas Status: Native |
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