Shortia galacifolia

Oconee bells
Oconee Bells
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Diapensiaceae
Genus:	Shortia
Species:	S. galacifolia
Binomial name
Shortia galacifolia Torr. & Gray
Variety
Shortia galacifolia var. brevistyla Davies Shortia galacifolia var. galacifolia Torr. & Gray

Shortia galacifolia (Oconee bells or Acony Bell) is a rare plant of the Southern Appalachians in the family Diapensiaceae. It is a relict herb which long bewitched Asa Gray, the eminent American botanist, a saga detailed in the paper "Asa Gray and his quest for Shortia glaucifolia" [Arnoldia Vol. 2, 13-26. 1942]. Gray had seen a fragment of the plant in the Paris herbarium in 1838, and had long sought it in the wild in the mountains of North Carolina. It was not rediscovered until 1877.

References

• Pink, A. (2004). Gardening for the Million. Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11892. 

• Gray, Asa. 1878. Shortia glaucifolia rediscovered. Amer. Journal of Science III 16:483-385.

External links

• "Shortia galacifolia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=23800. 
• USDA Plants Profile: Shortia galacifolia

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