OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Brassicales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Warea cuneifolia   FAMILY Brassicaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Warea cuneifolia   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Warea cuneifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Warea cuneifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 088-26-001:

Warea cuneifolia   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Warea cuneifolia

 

COMMON NAME:
Carolina Warea, Carolina Pineland-cress


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image of Warea cuneifolia, Carolina Warea, Carolina Pineland-cress

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_warea_cuneifolia_8

October        

image of Warea cuneifolia, Carolina Warea, Carolina Pineland-cress

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmwcuneifolia_lorrr1

November        

Pistil has a stipe that elongates into a prominent stalk as fruit matures, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).

image of Warea cuneifolia, Carolina Warea, Carolina Pineland-cress

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmwcuneifolia_lorrr2

November        

Flowers clustered in tight terminal racemes, the petals clawed, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).

image of Warea cuneifolia, Carolina Warea, Carolina Pineland-cress

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmwcuneifolia_lorrr2b

November        

Fruit is a dry, stalked, very narrow beanlike structure called a silique, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Warea cuneifolia   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Warea cuneifolia   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Warea cuneifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Warea cuneifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 088-26-001:
Warea cuneifolia   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Warea cuneifolia

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2363

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Xeric white sands of longleaf pine sandhills, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in GA Coastal Plain, rare in Carolinas

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Purplish-pink
Radially symmetrical
4 sepals
4 petals
6 stamens
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Silique

 

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