smooth Solomon's seal
Polygonatum biflorum
Also known as: Solomon's seal · King Solomon's-seal · great Solomon’s-seal · Southwest Solomon's-seal · Honey-flowered Solomon's Seal
Plantae
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- Size
- Medium
- Diet
- Photosynthetic
- Biome
- Temperate forest
- Range
- North America
- Movement
- Sessile
- Breeding
- Seeds
- Defense
- Toxins
- Status
- Common
About
A woodland perennial with an arching, unbranched stem lined with paired leaves and small bell-shaped greenish-yellow flowers dangling beneath each leaf axil. Its knobby underground rhizome bears round scars from each year's dead stem, resembling the wax seals once used on letters and giving the plant its name.
Life cycle
- 1.seedA dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
- 2.sproutA first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
- 3.saplingA young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
- 4.matureFully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Asparagaceae
- Genus
- Polygonatum
- Species
- Polygonatum biflorum