Data sources

Each value Trefle shows for Polygonatum biflorum, with what every source says about it. When sources disagree, the strongest source is shown (how sources are ranked). Values imported before sources were recorded one by one are marked Source not recorded.

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Sourced4 Source not recorded9 Sources: TRY Plant Trait Database, Earlier Trefle data

Field	Shown	What the sources say
Core
Author	(Walter) Elliott	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Bibliography	Sketch Bot. S. Carolina 1: 393 (1817)	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phylum	Tracheophyta	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Rank	species	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Status	accepted	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Year	1817	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Descriptive
Common name	American solomon's-seal	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Observations	CS. & SE. Canada to NE. Mexico	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Morphology
Average height	70 cm	70 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 10 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 28, 925	Sourced
Biological type	geophyte	geophyte · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 173 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 925	Sourced
Growth habit	Forb/herb	Forb/herb · Earlier Trefle data · Reported · 2026-10-19 value present before provenance tracking (2022 import), no source recorded	Sourced
Vegetable	false	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phenology
Duration	perennial	perennial · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 175 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 460, 925	Sourced

Polygonatum biflorum (Walter) Elliott, 1817 16% complete

American solomon's-seal

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