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4223

Subshrub; Forb
Perennial

Native to Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA - -

Uncommon

Look for it in sandhills, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Margins entire
Leaves do not have stipules.

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Stoloniferous

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Sepals purplish; petaloid petals purplish-pink
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
(4)5 sepals
(4)5 petals (two modified into oil-secreting structures)
Superior ovary

Flowers in terminal, secund racemes

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule

 

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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Zygophyllales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
 Krameria lanceolata   FAMILY Krameriaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Krameria lanceolata   FAMILY Krameriaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
 Krameria spathulata

 

COMMON NAME:
 Trailing Ratany, Sandspur, Spreading Ratanay, trailing krameria

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image of Krameria lanceolata, Trailing Ratany, Sandspur, Spreading Ratanay, trailing krameria

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_krla_001_lvd