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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Krameria lanceolata
FAMILY
Krameriaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read A Shrubby Sandbur, Krameria lanceolata from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Krameria lanceolata
FAMILY
Krameriaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Krameria spathulata
COMMON NAME:
Trailing Ratany, Sandspur, Spreading Ratanay, trailing krameria
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_krla_001_lvd
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, 1938)
Krameria spathulata
4223
Subshrub; Forb
Perennial
Native to Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA - -
Uncommon
Look for it in sandhills, 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
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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