Lophiola aurea
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Photo courtesy Renee Brecht |
Britton & Brown |
| Botanical name: | Lophiola aurea |
| Common name: | goldencrest |
| Group: | monocot |
| Family: | Liliaceae |
| Growth type: | forb/herb |
| Duration: | perennial |
| Origin: | native |
| Plant height: | 24-35" |
| Foliage: | silver/gray, woolly |
| Flower: | small, bright yellow |
| Flowering time: | Blooms early May to June; fruit late June to August |
| Habitat: | wet acid soil of bogs and swamps of pinelands |
| Range in New Jersey: | pine barrens |
| Heritage ranking, if any: | n/a |
| Distribution: |  |
| Misc. | This plant reaches its northern limit in the Pine Barrens. Witmer Stone wrote in 1910: "This is a striking lant found only in the heart of the Pine Barrens. The dense, wooly covering of the flowers recalls the Eidelweiss of the Swiss mountains, and from the downy, white clusters the little yellow flowers peep out like tiny stars...."(356) |