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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Mecardonia acuminata var. acuminata
FAMILY
Plantaginaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Mecardonia at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Mecardonia acuminata var. acuminata
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-06-001:
Mecardonia acuminata
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Bacopa acuminata
COMMON NAME:
Mecardonia, Common Axilflower
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_m_acuminata_cropped_s
September
Corolla white, with purple veins. The long, ascending pedicels are distinctive, per Weakley's Flora.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_m_acuminata_s2
September
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_m_acuminata_s2b
September
Leaves oblanceolate, serrate above the middle, about 1.5" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_m_acuminata_s2c
September
Sepals lanceolate, nearly equal in length, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Mecardonia acuminata var. acuminata
FAMILY
Plantaginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Mecardonia acuminata var. acuminata
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-06-001:
Mecardonia acuminata
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Bacopa acuminata
2286
Subshrub; Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Look for it in marshes, ditches, bottomland forests, wet disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White
(with purple lines)
Bisexual
5 sepals
2-lipped 5-lobed tubular to narrowly campanulate corolla
4 fertile stamens
Superior ovary
Flowers solitary in leaf axils
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p079
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p242
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p286
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p181