Native & Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas & Georgia

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2417

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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

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...Wet ...Moist

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

 

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

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 (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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picture of Bartonia virginica, image of Bartonia virginica

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.