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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Stylisma aquatica
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Water Dawnflower at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stylisma aquatica
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Stylisma aquatica
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-03-002:
Bonamia aquatica FAMILY Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Breweria michauxii
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Stylisma aquatica
COMMON NAME:
Water Dawnflower
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_staq3_001_lvd
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Alicia Jackson agj_0410_saquatica_sgl15
June Richmond County NC
The bright pink flowers and densely silvery-hairy leaves are distinctive, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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Alicia Jackson agj_0410_saquatica_sgl15b
June Richmond County NC
Leaves densely and conspicuously silvery-sericeous, per Weakley's Flora (2020).
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Alicia Jackson agj_1853
June Brunswick County NC
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Alicia Jackson agj_1853b
June Brunswick County NC
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Alicia Jackson agj_1854
June Brunswick County NC
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Alicia Jackson agj_1854b
June Brunswick County NC
Leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, about 1-1.5" long and 1/3 as wide, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Stylisma aquatica
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stylisma aquatica
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Stylisma aquatica
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-03-002:
Bonamia aquatica
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Breweria michauxii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Stylisma aquatica
3078
Herbaceous vine
Perennial
Habitat: clay-based Carolina bays, wet pine savannas, margins of pineland ponds, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon (rare in NC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Does not have milky sap
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer
Bright pink
5-merous
5 sepals
5-lobed campanulate to funnelform corolla
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p401
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p357
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p181
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