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Leafless Cowbane

Tiedemannia filiformis

Also called Water Cowbane, Water Dropwort

Leafless Cowbane
Photo: Everglades NPS from Homestead, Florida, United States, Public domain
Family
Apiaceae (Carrot family)
Grows as
Perennial
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
SE. U.S.A. to E. Texas, Bahamas to Cuba
Climate
subtropical

About

Tiedemannia filiformis (syn. Oxypolis filiformis) is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by the common names water cowbane and water dropwort. It grows in swamps, freshwater wetlands, and along the borders of ponds in the southeastern United States, as far north as Delaware, as well as the northern Bahamian pineyards of the Bahamas.

Other Tiedemannia plants

Tiedemannia canbyi · Cowbane

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tiedemannia filiformis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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