
bog asphodels and colicroots
Nartheciaceae
Nartheciaceae is a family of flowering plants. The APG III system places it in the order Dioscoreales, in the clade monocots. As circumscribed by APG IV (2016) it includes 35 species of herbaceous plants in the following five genera:
Aletris L.
5 branches of this family, most-observed first

Narthecium
genusNarthecium

Colicroots
genusAletris

goldencrests
genusLophiola

Metanarthecium
genusMetanarthecium

Nietneria
genusNietneria
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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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 51879.