Jeffersonia


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Jef`fer`so´ni`a


n.1.(Bot.) An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves (Jeffersonia diphylla); twinleaf.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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BERBERIDACEAE (Barberry Family) Jeffersonia diphylla (L.) Pers.--CW; MWL; Rare but locally abundant; C = 7; BSUH 19688.
For Spring Pond in 1996, two species with C-value of 8 (Anemone acutiloba and Fagus grandifolia) and four with C-values of 7 (Galium asprellum, Actaea pachyoda, Hydrangea arborescens, and Jeffersonia diphylla) were identified.
(4) Rue Anemone (5) Jeffersonia Diphylla Twinleaf (6) Trillium Grandiflorum (7) Yellow Lady's Slipper (8) Trillium Cuneatum
Typical genera of plants with species using this dispersal syndrome include Asarum, Claytonia, Dentaria, Dicentra, Erythronium, Jeffersonia, Sanguinaria, Trillium, and Viola.
grandifiorum," despite the fact that the study was conducted in a site where high predation on another myrmecochorous plant, Jeffersonia diphylla, had been detected (Smith et al.
Reproductive ecology of Jeffersonia diphylla (Berberidaceae).
Seed germination ecophysiology of Jeffersonia diphylla, a perennial herb of mesic deciduous forests.
douglassii, Claytonia virginica, Dicentra spp., Erigenia bulbosa, Erythronium americanum, Geranium maculatum, Geum vernum, Hydrophyllum macrophyllum, Isopyrum biternatum, Jeffersonia diphylla, Maianthemum racemosum, Osmorhiza longistylis, Packera obovata, Phlox divaricata, Podophyllum peltatum, Sanguinaria canadensis, Stellaria pubera, Trillium grandiflora, T.
Jeffersonia diphylla (L.) Pers.; Twinleaf: Woods; Abundant: C = 7: BSUH 13262.
The noteworthy additions include Arnoglossum reniforme, Carex hitchcockiana, Jeffersonia diphylla, Polemonium reptans, Prenanthes altissima (abundant on the east side), Sedum ternatum, Veronica anagallis-aquatica, and Zizia aurea.