Anthophyta: Dicotyledonae: Ranales: Berberidaceae: Podophyllum peltatum [return to Home Page]

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Scientific name: Anthophyta: Dicotyledonae: Ranales: Berberidaceae: Podophyllum peltatum
Common Name: Mayapple

Country: USA
State/District: DC
County: n/a
Date: 28 April 2001

Photographer: E. M. Barrows

Identifier: E. M. Barrows
Collector: not applicable
Location:
Keywords: forb Garden-1 Mayapple perennial white flower yellow fruit
Additional Information:

Figure 1.   A flowering plant accompanied by other plants.
Figure 2.   A flowering plant with its two leaves missing and which a White-tailed Deer probably ate.
Figure 3.   Plants of Mayapple that are surviving in a patch of the aggressive, alien invasive Lesser Celandine (which see).
Figure 4.   A flower of Mayapple.

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