Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Boraginales? order assignment uncertain
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Lithospermum virginianum
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Virginia Marbleseed at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Onosmodium virginianum
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-06-001:
Onosmodium virginianum
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
COMMON NAME:
Virginia Marbleseed, Virginia False Gromwell
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_onvi2_001_lvd
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_l_virginianum_2
June
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_lithospermumvirgi
June
Flowers borne in a distinctive, leafy, coiled inflorescence [helicoid cyme], per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_l_virginianum
July
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_l_virginianum_c
July
The mostly oblong leaves 1-5" long. All parts of the herbage hairy, rough, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Lithospermum virginianum
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Onosmodium virginianum
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-06-001:
Onosmodium virginianum
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
2738
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Uncommon (rare in NC & northward)
Look for it in sandhill woodlands, shell middens in the outer Coastal Plain, woodlands and barrens over diabase and other mafic rocks in the Piedmont and low Mountains, barrens, glades, or woodlands over calcareous rocks in the Mountains, 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
Mostly alternate
Margins entire
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Yellow/ Orange
Bisexual
5-parted calyx
5-lobed tubular to tubular-funnelform corolla
5 stamens
Superior ovary
Inflorescence a leafy helicoid cyme
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
White
Schizocarp of specialized mericarps (nutlets)
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p186
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p182
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p243
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p137
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p093