| Author | (Sullivant) A. Wood | |
| Distribution | An odd range, with a cluster of records for the central Piedmont, and a second cluster in the southern Mountains. Seemingly absent in the northern Mountains and most of the Piedmont foothills.
This is a species found mostly northwest of NC, from MA west to IL, and south to SC and AL. | |
| Abundance | Apparently rare to locally uncommon in the southwestern Mountains and in the northern Piedmont, but very rare in the central and southern Piedmont. This is a Watch List species, as its current status is not clear; most or all specimens are several decades old, though it is presumed to still be present. | |
| Habitat | This is a somewhat ruderal species, of moist and open habitats. It grows in wet meadows, openings in bottomlands, roadsides, and other disturbed places. | |
| Phenology | Blooms in April and May, and fruits shortly after flowering. | |
| Identification | This is an herb of medium height, with an erect stem to about 1.5 feet tall. It has scattered pairs of opposite stem leaves, each somewhat oblanceolate with a rounded apex, about 2 inches long and much narrower. As with the more numerous V. radiata, it is the flower clusters that are quite distinctive and identify a plant to this genus. At the ends of several dichotomous branches are the clusters, each with a tight handful of white flowers, and rather rounded in shape when viewed from above, about 1-inch across. The flowers are noticeably larger than those in V. radiata, which has each cluster strongly packed into a tight rectangle when viewed from above. As mentioned in Abundance, there is a need for new collections of this species, not just for documenting new counties but also to gain a better understanding of its current abundance level. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | A few older references named this as V. intermedia.
Weakley (2020) places Valerianella and Valeriana into family Valerianaceae, but without taxonomic justification. The papers he cites are a mixed bag without consensus. We will await further developments. | |
| Other Common Name(s) | Northern Cornsalad | |
| State Rank | S2? | |
| Global Rank | G4G5 | |
| State Status | W7 | |
| US Status | | |
| USACE-agcp | FAC link |
| USACE-emp | FAC link |
