Tofieldia racemosa var. glutinosa (Michx.) H.E. Ahles:
United States (North America)

Note: This information is based on publications available through Tropicos and may not represent the entire distribution. Tropicos does not categorize distributions as native or non-native.

Triantha glutinosa (Michx.) Baker:
Canada (North America)
United States (North America)

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Tofieldia glutinosa (Michx.) Pers.:
Canada (North America)
United States (North America)

Note: This information is based on publications available through Tropicos and may not represent the entire distribution. Tropicos does not categorize distributions as native or non-native.

St. Pierre and Miquelon; Alta., B.C., Man., N.B., Nfld. and Labr., N.W.T., N.S., Ont., Que., Sask., Yukon; Alaska, Ill., Ind., Maine, Mich., Minn., N.H., N.Y., N.C., N.Dak., Ohio, Oreg., Tenn., Vt., Va., W.Va., Wis.

Canada

Origin: Native

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Present

Confidence: Confident

United States

Origin: Unknown/Undetermined

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

Stems leafless, or with 1–3 leaves toward base, 5–50 cm, glandular below inflorescence, glands dome-shaped to conical, 1/2–2 times longer than wide, rarely glandular-pubescent with coarse cylindrical hairs. Leaf blades to 30 cm × 6 mm. Inflorescences forming cylindric-ovate spikelike heads, 3–30-flowered, sometimes interrupted or open, 1–6.5 cm, glandular-pubescent; bracts subtending pedicel in cluster; bracteoles forming ascending, truncate, or shallowly 3-lobed involucre around pedicel, lobes spreading, occasionally cleft from proximal 1/3 to base, narrow, usually glabrous, margins usually entire or nearly so, apex rounded to acute. Flowers borne in clusters of 3, proximal sometimes remote; perianth white or yellowish; tepals 3.8–5 mm, inner series slightly longer; stamens 2.8–4 mm; ovary ellipsoid, tapering gradually to style base; styles distinct, 0.6–1.5 mm; pedicel 1–9 mm. Capsules ovoid to broadly ellipsoid, 3.5–7.5 mm, clearly longer than tepals and not enclosed by them, chartaceous, easily ruptured. Seeds reddish brown, ca. 1 mm; appendages 2, one at each end of seed, one contorted, 1–4 times longer than seed, other at opposite end, much shorter; coat absent.

Narthecium glutinosum Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 210. 1803; Tofieldia glutinosa (Michaux) Persoon; T. racemosa (Walter) Britton, Sterns & Poggenburg var. glutinosa (Michaux) H. E. Ahles

Marshes, wet meadows, calcareous soil; 0--2100m.

Tofieldia glutinosa (False Asphodel)
(Flies suck nectar or feed on pollen, other insects suck nectar; all observations are from Graenicher)

Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Apinae): Apis mellifera sn

Bees (short-tongued)
Halictidae (Halictinae): Lasioglossum zephyrus sn

Wasps
Vespidae: Polistes fuscata sn

Ants
Formicidae: Crematogaster lineolata sn, Formica fusca sn

Flies
Bombyliidae: Hemipenthes sinuosa; Syrphidae: Allograpta obliqua, Eristalis arbustorum, Eupeodes americanus, Toxomerus marginatus; Tachinidae: Archytas analis, Eumea caesar; Sarcophagidae: Helicobia rapax; Calliphoridae: Lucilia sericata

Butterflies
Nymphalidae: Phyciodes tharos sn; Pieridae: Pieris rapae sn

Beetles
Mordellidae: Mordellistena comata sn

Flowering summer.

The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.


No available public DNA sequences.

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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 6
Specimens with Barcodes: 6
Species With Barcodes: 1

The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.


No available public DNA sequences.

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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 2
Specimens with Barcodes: 2
Species With Barcodes: 1

Canada

Rounded National Status Rank: N5 - Secure

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked

Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure

Comments: Highly threatened by land-use conversion, habitat fragmentation, and forest management practices; vulnerable to sedimentation (Southern Appalachian Species Viability Project 2002).

Hybrids between Triantha glutinosa and T. racemosa occur in Burlington County, New Jersey; see note under T. racemosa. On the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia, there appears to be some evidence of hybridization between T. glutinosa and the two subspecies of T. occidentalis that occur there.