3120

Forb
Perennial

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

Common (uncommon in Mountains)

Look for it in dry openings and woodlands, esp in thin soil around rock outcrops, streambanks, riverbanks, mesic forests, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Blue
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
3-merous
3 sepals, the lateral two partly united
3 petals, the upper two large and the lowest smaller
3 fertile stamens, 3 sterile stamens
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p156?
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p158?
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p342
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p394
• Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p354
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p004

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Commelinales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Commelina erecta var. erecta   FAMILY Commelinaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Commelina erecta var. erecta   FAMILY Commelinaceae

LESS THAN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 038-01-002:
Commelina erecta   FAMILY Commelinaceae