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Turtleheads
Chelone
Chelone is a genus of four species of perennial herbaceous plants native to eastern North America. They all have similarly shaped flowers (which led to the name turtlehead due to their resemblance to the head of a turtle), which vary in color from white to red, purple or pink. Chelone cuthbertii, C. glabra, and C. lyonii are diploid and C. obliqua is either tetraploid or hexaploid, depending on their slight differences in morphology and localities.
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first
white turtlehead
speciesChelone glabra
pink turtlehead
speciesChelone lyonii
rose turtlehead
speciesChelone speciosa
red turtlehead
speciesChelone obliqua
Cuthbert's turtlehead
speciesChelone cuthbertii
Erwin's turtlehead
speciesChelone erwiniae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 54403.