OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Stylisma aquatica   FAMILY Convolvulaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stylisma aquatica   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

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

Stylisma aquatica

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-03-002:

Bonamia aquatica   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Breweria michauxii

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

Stylisma aquatica

 

COMMON NAME:
Water Dawnflower


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image of Stylisma aquatica, Water Dawnflower

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_staq3_001_lvd

        

image of Stylisma aquatica, Water Dawnflower

Alicia Jackson    agj_0410_saquatica_sgl15

June    Richmond County    NC

The bright pink flowers and densely silvery-hairy leaves are distinctive, per Weakley's Flora (2022).

image of Stylisma aquatica, Water Dawnflower

Alicia Jackson    agj_0410_saquatica_sgl15b

June    Richmond County    NC

Leaves densely and conspicuously silvery-sericeous, per Weakley's Flora (2020).

image of Stylisma aquatica, Water Dawnflower

Alicia Jackson    agj_1853

June    Brunswick County    NC

image of Stylisma aquatica, Water Dawnflower

Alicia Jackson    agj_1853b

June    Brunswick County    NC

image of Stylisma aquatica, Water Dawnflower

Alicia Jackson    agj_1854

June    Brunswick County    NC

image of Stylisma aquatica, Water Dawnflower

Alicia Jackson    agj_1854b

June    Brunswick County    NC

Leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, about 1-1.5" long and 1/3 as wide, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Stylisma aquatica   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stylisma aquatica   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-03-002:
Bonamia aquatica   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Breweria michauxii

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3078

Herbaceous vine
Perennial

Habitat: clay-based Carolina bays, wet pine savannas, margins of pineland ponds, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon (rare in NC)

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DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Does not have milky sap

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer
Bright pink
5-merous
5 sepals
5-lobed campanulate to funnelform corolla
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule

 

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