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Annual/Weak perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common

Look for it in sluggish streams, bogs, wet areas, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves sessile

FLOWER:
Spring
White (lined with lavender)
Bisexual
5 sepals
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla (apparently 4-lobed, but the upper two lobes are fused)
2 stamens
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Spring
Capsule

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

Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southeastern United States p638
Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p089
Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p284
Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p160
Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p244

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Gratiola virginiana FAMILY Plantaginaceae

GREATER THAN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gratiola virginiana + FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 166-07-006:
Gratiola virginiana FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

COMMON NAME:
Round-fruit Hedge-hyssop, Virginia Hedge-hyssop

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image of Gratiola virginiana, Round-fruit Hedge-hyssop, Virginia Hedge-hyssop

Patrick D. McMillan pdmgvirginiana_cane1

April Pickens County SC

Jocassee Gorges

Nearly 2' tall; leaves elliptical; flowers on stout but very short pedicels, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.