2058

Forb
Annual/Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)

Look for it in moist sands or peats of various kinds of acidic wetlands, including wet pine savannas & flatwoods, shores of linesink ponds (dolines), borrow pits, ditches, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet ...Moist

LEAVES:
Simple: sparsely dissected

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellow
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped calyx
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla (usually)
2 fertile stamens, occasionally 2 staminodia
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Brown
Capsule

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p095
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p254
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p297
• Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p192

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Utricularia subulata   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Utricularia subulata   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 170-02-001:
Utricularia subulata   FAMILY Lentibulariaceae

GREATER THAN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Setiscapella subulata

GREATER THAN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Setiscapella cleistogama