4356

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common in NC & SC Coastal Plain (uncommon to rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC) (an endemic)

Look for it in marshes, swamps, creekbanks, alluvial forests, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet

LEAVES:
Simple
Whorls of 4 (rarely 5-6)
Margins entire

FLOWER:
Spring
White
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
Sepals usually obsolete
4-lobed rotate corolla

FRUIT:
Black

 

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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Gentianales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Galium obtusum var. filifolium   FAMILY Rubiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Galium obtusum ssp. filifolium   FAMILY Rubiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of Virginia (Weakley, Ludwig & Townsend, 2012)
Galium obtusum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 173-10-011b:
Galium obtusum var. filifolium   FAMILY Rubiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Galium filifolium