2302

Forb
Perennial

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA - SC

Uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain (rare in SC)

Look for it in shallow soil over felsic rocks (granite) or sandstone (in GA), or Altamaha Grit (GA), where periodically wet by seepage, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Pink
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
2 deciduous sepals
5 petals
(40) 50-80 (90) stamens
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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

• Guide to the Plants of Granite Outcrops p75
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p007
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p053
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p076

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Caryophyllales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Phemeranthus mengesii   FAMILY Montiaceae

(?) INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Phemeranthus mengesii   FAMILY Portulacaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Talinum mengesii

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Talinum mengesii