Trepocarpus aethusae Nutt. ex DC.

White Nymph

Herb

Annual

Vascular

White Nymph is a native herbaceous annual in the Carrot family (Apiaceae). It grows in hardwood floodplain forests, in prairie margins, in wet clearings, along rivers and streams, and in moist roadside ditches. White Nymph occurs statewide in Alabama but is most common in the western half of the state. It is an annual with a tap root. All parts of the plant have a strong carrot odor when crushed. Stems are erect, 2-3 feet tall, ribbed, branched above the middle, green in color, and glabrous. Leaves are alternate, petiolate, 2-3 times pinnately dissected, and glabrous. Ultimate leaf segments are flat and linear. Flowers are produced in compound axillary and terminal umbels. Each compound umbel has 2-4 umbellets. Individual umbellets have 2-8 flowers with unequal stalks. Each flower has 5 white petals and an elongate floral tube. The fruit is a linear-oblong ribbed mericarp.—A. Diamond

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Native FACW (NWPL)

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