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Xerophyllum asphodeloides

Plants

Family: Melanthiaceae · Genus: Xerophyllum

Xerophyllum asphodeloides

Sydenham Edwards (d. 1819) · public_domain

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Xerophyllum asphodeloides is a North American species of flowering plants in the Melanthiaceae known by the common names turkey beard, eastern turkeybeard, beartongue, grass-leaved helonias, and mountain asphodel. It is native to the eastern United States, where it occurs in the southern Appalachian Mountains from Virginia to Alabama, and also in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey.

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Growing details and traits for Xerophyllum asphodeloides in the Library.

No cultivars in the Library yet — the full profile above covers the species itself.