3288

Forb
Annual

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia?

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal leaves usually absent or withered at flowering)

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellow
4-lobed calyx
4 petals
8 exserted stamens
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule

 

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

• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p057
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p153
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p188
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p108

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Myrtales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Oenothera linifolia   FAMILY Onagraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oenothera linifolia   FAMILY Onagraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 137-02-011x:
Oenothera linifolia   FAMILY Onagraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Peniophyllum linifolium