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American Ipecac (Rosaceae) is mostly a midwestern species and has been excluded from the Maryland Plant Atlas. This species is not related to another plant with the same common name but belonging to a different family and genus: Euphorbia ipecacuanhae, in the Euphorbiaceae Family. The latter species occurs in Maryland, and there can be confusion because of the same common names.
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| Illustration from Nathaniel Lord Britton & Addison Brown's (1913) Illustrated flora of the northern states and Canada. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rosaceae |
| Genus: | Gillenia |
| Species: | G. stipulata
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Gillenia stipulata, or American ipecac, is an herbacious perennial plant in the genus Gillenia, in the family Rosaceae,[1] native to the United States from Texas to the west and south, New York to the North, and North Carolina to the east.[2] The species grows in dry uplands and open woods, usually on acidic soils. It reaches a height of about 1 metre (3.3 ft) and has white flowers with 5 very narrow petals spaced widely apart.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gillenia stipulata". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
- ^ "2013 BONAP North American Plant Atlas. TaxonMaps". bonap.net.
- ^ Denison, Edgar (2017). Missouri Wildflowers. Conservation Commission of the State of Missouri. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-887247-59-7.
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