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Valeriana officinalis L.

Common Name: COMMON VALERIAN, GARDEN-HELIOTROPE
Coefficient of Conservatism: *
Coefficient of Wetness: 3
Wetness Index: FACU
Physiognomy: Ad P-Forb

A Eurasian native, often cultivated for its very fragrant flowers and occasionally established as an escape to roadsides, ditches, shores, fields, and borders of forests. First collected in 1912 in Presque Isle Co.

This flowers from mid-June through July, while V. uliginosa flowers significantly earlier, from mid-May through June.

C. Peirce

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Counties
Alpena
Baraga
Benzie
Berrien
Cheboygan
Chippewa
Emmet
Gogebic
Iron
Kalamazoo
Keweenaw
Lenawee
Mackinac
Mecosta
Missaukee
Newaygo
Oakland
Ontonagon
Presque Isle
Washtenaw
Wayne

Citation:
MICHIGAN FLORA ONLINE. A. A. Reznicek, E. G. Voss, & B. S. Walters. February 2011. University of Michigan. Web. March, 28, 2025
https://lsa-miflora-p.lsait.lsa.umich.edu/#/record/2762