Asarum rosei

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Asarum rosei
Lightly speckled heart-shaped leaves on short stalks, a pale 3-lobed flower among them

Critically Imperiled  (NatureServe)[1][2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Piperales
Family: Aristolochiaceae
Genus: Asarum
Species:
A. rosei
Binomial name
Asarum rosei
Sinn[3]

Asarum rosei is a species of flowering plant endemic to North Carolina in the southeastern United States.[3] It was first formally described in 2017 by Brandon T. Sinn in Phytotaxa.[4][5][6] The species is named for Mark Rose, "a respected plant collector, horticulturalist, orchid breeder, and naturalist who discovered and documented the species".[4]

Leaves of Asarum rosei
Asarum rosei front-view of flower
Asarum rosei side-view of flower

Photographs by Eleanor Harris. Released under CC0 1.0.[7]

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