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3078

Herbaceous vine
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Uncommon (rare in NC)

Look for it in clay-based Carolina bays and wet savannas, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer
Pink/ Purplish
5-merous
5 sepals
5-lobed campanulate to funnelform corolla
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule

 

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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Solanales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
 Stylisma aquatica   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Stylisma aquatica   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 158-03-002:
 Bonamia aquatica   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

 

COMMON NAME:
 Water Dawnflower

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image of Stylisma aquatica, Water Dawnflower

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_staq3_001_lvd