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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Spermacoce remota
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spermacoce assurgens
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Borreria laevis
COMMON NAME:
woodland false buttonweed
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Keith Bradley kab_s_assurgens_76798
July Miami-Dade County FL
Leaves narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, 4-16mm wide, per Flora of China.
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Keith Bradley kab_s_assurgens_76798b
July Miami-Dade County FL
Calyx puberulent or hirtellous to glabrescent. Corolla white, funnelform, per Flora of China.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Spermacoce remota
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spermacoce assurgens
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Borreria laevis
4089
Subshrub; Forb
Annual/Perennial
Native to Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA - -
Rare
Look for it in wet hammocks, bottomland forests, marshes, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Margins entire
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White
with a pink throat
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
4-lobed calyx
4-lobed funnelform corolla
4 stamens
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
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