Native to Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 2 occurrences across 1 country.

Distribution

Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO

Occurrences

No collection number

June 24, 2003

Location

United States, Pennsylvania (Longwood Gardens)

Location Remarks

1001 Longwood Road, Kennett Square , PA 19348. (See website for detailed directions)

Collectors

No collectors specified

Davidson, C 13005

May 13, 2015

Location

United States, North Carolina, Macon

35.093611, -83.520556

Location Remarks

Nantahala National Forest road off old U.S. route 64 (highway 1448), SW of city of Franklin; near Standing Indian on trail to Wasilik Poplar. 1115 m elev.

Collectors

Christopher Davidson, David E. Boufford, Sharon R. Christoph, Tomomi Masaki

Notes

Roadside dirt bank. Harbaceous subshrub; branches to c. 1 m.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Rosales

Family

Rosaceae

Genus

Gillenia

Specific Epithet

trifoliata

Authorship

(L.) Moench

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIF WFO POWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 8.6

Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.

Threat status

Predicted not threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

0.9

Global rank

#51,395 of 335,497

Top 16%

Extinction probability

10%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →