Species Information
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Anthophyta
Class: Dicotyledoneae
Order: Dipsacales
Family: Caprifoliaceae
Genus: Valeriana
Species: texana
Texas Tobacco-Root - Valeriana texana
Image courtesy of New Mexico Rare Plants
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Species Extent (New Mexico)
General Description
Perennial herb, 7-30 cm tall; caudex multiple-branched, borne on a cylindric to flattened taproot, usually with a dense cushion of old leaf bases present beneath the new growth; leaves primarily basal, undivided, elliptic to obovate-spatulate, narrowly obtuse to acute, 4-15 cm long and to 3 cm wide, glabrous; inflorescence 2-6 cm long at anthesis, later to 12 cm long, with numerous tiny flowers in clustered or paniculate cymes; flowers either perfect or pistillate; calyx 6-8 lobed, persistent, enlarging and developing short setae in fruit; corolla white, rotate, gibbous, pubescent basally without, 1.1-1.9 mm long for pistillate flowers, 3-3.8 mm long for perfect flowers; stamens exserted, usually 3; fruits indehiscent, single-seeded, narrowly elliptic to elliptic, 2-2.5 mm long, with evident adaxial ribs. Flowers April to July.
Status
Observations in Natural Heritage New Mexico Database
Number of Subpopulations: 9
Number of Mapped Locations: 18
Number of Observations: 23
Observation date range: 07-03-1970 to 05-21-2011
External Links
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NatureServe Explorer
New Mexico Rare Plants Website
Environmental Conservation Online System (ECOS)
NatureServe Explorer
New Mexico Rare Plants Website
Environmental Conservation Online System (ECOS)