Sphenopholis filiformis(Chapm.) Scribn.

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WFO wfo-0000900789 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Sphenopholis filiformis, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. a Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-04-20 / obs. 122134434
Sphenopholis filiformis, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. b Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 17799399
Sphenopholis filiformis, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. c Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 122134453
Sphenopholis filiformis, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. d Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 17799389
Sphenopholis filiformis, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. e Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 122134475
Sphenopholis filiformis, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. f Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 122134485
Sphenopholis filiformis, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. g Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 122134500
Sphenopholis filiformis, photographed by Will McFarland
fig. h Will McFarland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 122134518

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Sphenopholis filiformis is native: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia AlabamaArkansasFloridaGeorgiaLouisianaMississippiNorth CarolinaOklahomaSouth CarolinaTennesseeTexasVirginia
Native distribution of Sphenopholis filiformis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arkansas ARK
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Louisiana LOU
Mississippi MSI
North Carolina NCA
Oklahoma OKL
South Carolina SCA
Tennessee TEN
Texas TEX
Virginia VRG

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Eatonia aristata Scribn. & Merr.
  • Eatonia filiformis (Chapm.) Vasey
  • Eatonia hybrida Vasey ex Beal
  • Eatonia pennsylvanica var. filiformis Chapm.
  • Eatonia pensylvanica var. filiformis Chapm.
  • Reboulea filiformis Farw.
  • Sphenopholis aristata (Scribn. & Merr.) A.Heller
  • Trisetum aristatum (Scribn. & Merr.) Nash

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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