Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Myrtales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Ludwigia brevipes
FAMILY
Onagraceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Long Beach Seedbox at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_lubr8_001_lvd
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
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
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
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Yellow
4 sepals
4 petals
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
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