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Description:
Lanceleaf wakerobin is a perennial herbaceous originating from a Rhizome 3 to 6 cenimeters (cm) in length by 6 to 10 millimeters (mm) in diameter. The stems are purple below and green above, 1-3 decimeters (dm) tall. The sessile to short-petiolate leaves are mottled with lighter shades of green and purple and are narrowly elliptic and 6 to 9 cm in length by 2 to 2.5 cm in width. The flowers are sessile with 1.5 to 2.5 cm in length with 4 to 7 mm wide reflexed sepals. Lanceleaf wakerobin produces purple or maroon Petals, which are linear-lanceoloate, and narrowed to a claw for roughly 1/3 of the length. The petals are 3 to 3.5 cm in length by 4 to 8 mm in width. The stamens are colored like the petals and are 10 to 12 mm in lenght with filaments 1 to 3 mm in length (Radford et al. 1968).
Habitat:
Lanceleaf wakerobin inhabits Wooded slopes, usually on circumneutral or basic soils (Radford et al. 1968).
Range:
There are currenty three separate populations of Lanceleaf wakerobin. The first ranges from western South Carolina southwest into central Georgia. A second population can be found ranging from northwest Georgia into northeast Alabama and southeast Tennessee and a third population ranges from southeast Georgia into the central Florida panhandle and southeast Alabama. A fourth population exists in west central Alabama and east central Mississippi (Harvard University 2004).
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