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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Bartonia virginica   FAMILY Gentianaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bartonia virginica   FAMILY Gentianaceae

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

Bartonia verna

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-04-002:

Bartonia virginica   FAMILY Gentianaceae

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

Bartonia virginica

 

COMMON NAME:
Virginia Bartonia, Yellow Screwstem, Yellow Bartonia, Common Bartonia


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Patrick D. McMillan    pdmbvirginica_fs188

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Tiny flowers, with corolla lobes erect or ascending, on a wiry 4-16" stem, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Bartonia virginica   FAMILY Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bartonia virginica   FAMILY Gentianaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-04-002:
Bartonia virginica   FAMILY Gentianaceae

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

 

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2417

Forb
Annual

Habitat: bogs, swamps, savannas, pocosin ecotones, pocosins, dune swales, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Simple - scale-like, inconspicuous
Midstem leaves opposite; other leaves mostly opposite or subopposite

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Straw-colored or creamy-white (greenish or purplish towards apex)
Radially symmetrical
4 sepals
4 petals
4 stamens

Inflorescence an ascending raceme or narrow panicle

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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