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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Ruellia ciliosa   FAMILY Acanthaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ruellia caroliniensis ssp. ciliosa var. cinerascens   FAMILY Acanthaceae

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

Ruellia caroliniansis ssp. ciliosa var. cinerascens

INCLUDED WITHIN Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge (Wofford, 1989)

Ruellia caroliniensis

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Genera of Acanthaceae in the Southeastern US (Long, 1970)

Ruellia caroliniensis ssp. ciliosa var. ciliosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 171-03-006:

Ruellia ciliosa   FAMILY Acanthaceae

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

Ruellia ciliosa

 

COMMON NAME:
Sandhills Wild-petunia, Dwarf Wild-petunia


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image of Ruellia ciliosa, Sandhills Wild-petunia, Dwarf Wild-petunia

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_ruci4_001_lvd

        

image of Ruellia ciliosa, Sandhills Wild-petunia, Dwarf Wild-petunia

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_ruellia_ciliosa1a

July    Richmond County    NC

Stemless or w very short stem; leaves lustrous, often strongly tinged brown, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).

image of Ruellia ciliosa, Sandhills Wild-petunia, Dwarf Wild-petunia

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_ruellia_ciliosa8

July    Richmond County    NC

One or a few flowers, erect, their mouths facing up, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Ruellia ciliosa   FAMILY Acanthaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ruellia caroliniensis ssp. ciliosa var. cinerascens   FAMILY Acanthaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Ruellia caroliniansis ssp. ciliosa var. cinerascens

INCLUDED WITHIN Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge (Wofford, 1989)
Ruellia caroliniensis

SYNONYMOUS WITH The Genera of Acanthaceae in the Southeastern US (Long, 1970)
Ruellia caroliniensis ssp. ciliosa var. ciliosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 171-03-006:
Ruellia ciliosa   FAMILY Acanthaceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2906

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Sandhills, particularly in loamy, submesic swales, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in GA Coastal Plain, rare in Carolinas

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette
Leaves sessile to subsessile

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Blue-violet (rarely pink)
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed funnelform corolla
4 included stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Brown/Yellow-brown
Capsule

 

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