Astilbe crenatiloba (Britton) Small (1905:158)
Roan Mountain false goat’s beard, Crenate-lobed false goat’s-beard
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Astilbe decandra var. crenatiloba Britton in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 15: 98 (1888); Astilbe biternata var. crenatiloba (Britton) Wheelock in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 23: 68 (1896)
Conservation Status
Extinct (WCMC, 1992:222; Humphreys et al. 2019; Knapp et al., 2021; Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022; POWO, 2024; Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2025; NatureServe, 2026)
Last record: 1885 (Christenhusz & Govaerts, 2025; NatureServe, 2026); 1888 (Knapp et al., 2021)
Distribution & Habitat
Roan Mountain, Carter County, Tennessee, USA
"It was previously thought to have been collected in North Carolina but is now known to have occurred only in Tennessee (Weakley 2015)."
(NatureServe, 2026)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Britton, N. L. (1888). New or noteworthy North American Phanerogams I. Bull. Torrey Botanical Club 15(4): 97-104.
Other references:
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Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]
Kartesz, J. T. (1994). A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 2nd edition. 2 vols. Timber Press, Portland, OR.
Knapp, Wesley M., Frances, Anne, Noss, Reed, Naczi, Robert F. C., Weakley, Alan, Gann, George D., Baldwin, Bruce G., Miller, James, McIntyre, Patrick, Mishler, Brent D., Moore, Gerry, Olmstead, Richard G., Strong, Anna, Kennedy, Kathryn, Heidel, Bonnie and Gluesenkamp, Daniel. (2021). Vascular plant extinction in the continental United States and Canada. Conservation Biology 35(1): 360-368. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13621 [Supporting Information (Appendix S1)]
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NatureServe. (2026). Astilbe crenatiloba: Crenate-lobed False Goat's-beard. NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available at: https://explorer.natureserve.org/ [Accessed on 21 August 2026]
POWO. (2024). Astilbe crenatiloba (Britton) Small. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 3 April 2024]
Radford, A. E., Ahles, H. E. and Bell, C. R. (1968). Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, N.C. 1183 pp.
Small, J. K. (1933). Manual of the southeastern flora, being descriptions of the seed plants growing naturally in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, eastern Louisiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Southern Appalachian Species Viability Project. (2002). A partnership between the U.S. Forest Service-Region 8, Natural Heritage Programs in the Southeast, NatureServe, and independent scientists to develop and review data on 1300+ regionally and locally rare species in the Southern Appalachian and Alabama region. Database (Access 97) provided to the U.S. Forest Service by NatureServe, Durham, North Carolina.
Tennessee Flora Committee. (2015). Guide to the vascular plants of Tennessee (editors: E.W. Chester, Be.E. Wofford, J. Shaw, D. Estes, and D.H. Webb). Univ Tenn. Press, Knoxville.
WCMC (World Conservation Monitoring Centre). (1992). Global Biodiversity: Status of the Earth's living resources. London: Chapman & Hall. xx + 594 pp.
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