Scientific Name
Medeola virginiana

Common Name
Indian cucumber-root
Life Cycle: Perennial


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Height: 1 to 2.5 feet
Flower/fruit: Nodding yellow-green flower on top of a slender, woolly unbranched stem; petals and sepals curve backwards; dark blue berries with red pedicel  
Flowering Season: Spring to early summer
Foliage: Upper whorl of 3, 1 to 3 inch leaves; lower whorl of 6 to 10 leaves, 2.5 to 5 inches long; all are ovate to lanceolate
Site: Moist, deciduous woods
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