3079

Herbaceous vine
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common

Look for it in sandhills and other relatively dry sandy areas, per Weakley's Flora

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...Dry

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer
White
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!

• Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p123
• Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p156
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p071
• Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p055

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Stylisma patens var. patens   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stylisma patens ssp. patens   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 158-03-004a:
Bonamia patens var. patens   FAMILY Convolvulaceae