Zigadenus leimanthoides
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Photo Courtesy Renee Brecht |
Britton & Brown |
| Botanical name: | Zigadenus leimanthoides |
| Common name: | Pine Barrens death camas |
| Group: | monocot |
| Family: | Liliaceae |
| Growth type: | forb/herb |
| Duration: | perennial |
| Origin: | native |
| Plant height: | 5 - 15 dm |
| Foliage: | grasslike leaves, Erect stem. Leaves elongate-linear. |
| Flower: | 6 petals, white-creamy to yellow flowers, flowers crowed in panicled racemes, 3-5mm |
| Flowering time: | late June to mid-July |
| Habitat: | wet, sandy pinelands and bogs of the coastal plain and Piedmont. |
| Range in New Jersey: | This plant is not Pinelands listed, but is found in the Pine Barrens as well as Middlesex County. |
| Heritage ranking, if any: | S1 by Natural Heritage database, and its state status is endangered in New Jersey. |
| Distribution: |  |
| Misc. | USDA
lists as an obligate wetland species: Occurs almost always (estimated
probability 99%) under natural conditions in wetlands. |