714

Forb
Perennial

Native to North Carolina
Documented growing wild in - NC -

Common or uncommon, depending on province and variety

Look for it in cove forests, moist rocky forests, alluvial forests, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet ...Moist

LEAVES:
Prinicipal cauline leaves pinnately divided (similar to basal lvs)
Alternate & basal

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White/ Blue-purple
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5-parted campanulate calyx
5-lobed campanulate corolla
5 stamens, fused to corolla
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule

 

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

• Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers p066
• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p228
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p072
• Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p158
• Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p210
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p207
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p244
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p134

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Hydrophyllum virginianum +   FAMILY Hydrophyllaceae

LESS THAN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hydrophyllum virginianum   FAMILY Hydrophyllaceae

LESS THAN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 160-04-003:
Hydrophyllum virginianum   FAMILY Hydrophyllaceae

LESS THAN (ORTHOGRAPHIC ERROR) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Hydrophyllum virginicum