Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Gentianales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Bartonia verna
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Spring Bartonia at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bartonia verna
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-04-001:
Bartonia verna
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Bartonia verna
COMMON NAME:
Spring Bartonia, White Bartonia, White Screwstem
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_bave2_001_lvd
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Keith Bradley kab_bartonia_verna_5113
December Lee County FL
Wild Turkey Strand Preserve
Four tiny petals, widest above middle, atop a purplish threadlike 2-8" stem, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Bartonia verna
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bartonia verna
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-04-001:
Bartonia verna
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Bartonia verna
3053
Forb
Annual
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common (uncommon in NC)
Look for it in wet pine savannas, on shores of Coastal Plain depression ponds, interdune swales, other moist sands, 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 or subopposite
FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
White
Radially symmetrical
4 sepals
4 petals
4 stamens
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p136
- Gentians of the Eastern US p032
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p258
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p114