2230

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common (rare in Mountains)

Look for it in woodlands, other dry to moist places, per Weakley's Flora

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...Moist ...Dry

LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly alternate, lowest often opposite

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellow
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
5 sepals
5 petals

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule

 

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

• Wildflowers of Tennessee p161
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p197
• Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p067

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Malpighiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Linum curtissii   FAMILY Linaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Linum medium var. texanum   FAMILY Linaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 099-01-004b:
Linum virginianum var. medium   FAMILY Linaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cathartolinum medium