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2994

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Rare

Look for it on pondshores, blackwater rivers, interdunal swales, borrow ponds, ditches, impoundments, marshes, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Yellow
4 sepals
4 petals
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Myrtales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
 Ludwigia brevipes   FAMILY Onagraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Ludwigia brevipes   FAMILY Onagraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 137-01-020:
 Ludwigia brevipes   FAMILY Onagraceae

 

COMMON NAME:
 Long Beach Seedbox, Coastal Plain Water-purslane

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image of Ludwigia brevipes, Long Beach Seedbox, Coastal Plain Water-purslane

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_lubr8_001_lvd