Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Gentianales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Bartonia virginica
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Virginia Bartonia at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bartonia virginica
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-04-002:
Bartonia virginica
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Bartonia virginica
COMMON NAME:
Virginia Bartonia, Yellow Screwstem, Yellow Bartonia, Common Bartonia
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmbvirginica_fs188
Month Unknown
Tiny flowers, with corolla lobes erect or ascending, on a wiry 4-16" stem, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Bartonia virginica
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bartonia virginica
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-04-002:
Bartonia virginica
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Bartonia virginica
2417
Forb
Annual
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Uncommon (rare in Mountains)
Look for it in bogs, swamps, savannas, pocosin ecotones, pocosins, dune swales, 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 - scale-like, inconspicuous
Opposite just below inflorescence, alternate or subopposite lower down
FLOWER:
WinterSummer/Fall
Yellowish/Straw-colored
(greenish or purplish towards apex)
Radially symmetrical
4 sepals
4 petals
4 stamens
Inflorescence an ascending raceme or narrow panicle
FRUIT:
WinterSummer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p137
- Gentians of the Eastern US p034
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p126
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p114
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p184
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p179