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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cuphea carthagenensis   FAMILY Lythraceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cuphea carthagenensis   FAMILY Lythraceae

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

Cuphea carthagenensis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Cuphea carthagenensis

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISSPELLED) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 135-06-002:

Cuphea carthagensis   FAMILY Lythraceae

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

Parsonsia balsamona

 

COMMON NAME:
Colombian Waxweed


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image of Cuphea carthagenensis, Colombian Waxweed

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_cuphea_carthagenens_b

July        

Leaves opposite (none whorled); petioles to 8 mm long, often very short, per Weakley's Flora (2012).

image of Cuphea carthagenensis, Colombian Waxweed

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_cuphea_carthagenens_c

July        

Floral tube green, glabrous inside; stamens much shorter than floral tube, per Weakley's Flora (2012).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Cuphea carthagenensis   FAMILY Lythraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Cuphea carthagenensis   FAMILY Lythraceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Cuphea carthagenensis

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISSPELLED) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 135-06-002:
Cuphea carthagensis   FAMILY Lythraceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3612

Forb
Annual

Habitat: marshes, ditches, floodplain forests, wet hammocks, other wet places, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: South America

Common (rare in Piedmont)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves have petioles.

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Purple
6-merous
6 petals or petals absent
12 inserted stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in leaf axils

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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