| Distribution | Weakley (2022) considers this taxon as uncommon in the Mountains and rare in the Piedmont. One website editor, Sorrie, recently reviewed specimens at the UNC-Chapel Hill herbarium. His tentative identifications, based on Fernald's 1940 paper in Rhodora, show that var. grandis occurs in Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Haywood, Henderson, Madison, Mitchell, and Watauga counties--all montane. A specimen from Forsyth County is equivocal.
Ranges from IA to southern ONT and VT, south to OK, reportedly TX, AR, northeast AL, possibly north GA (equivocal), and northwest SC (Greenwood Co.). | |
