OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Rotala ramosior   FAMILY Lythraceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rotala ramosior   FAMILY Lythraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 10 (2021)

Rotala ramosior

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

Rotala ramosior

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 135-01-001:

Rotala ramosior   FAMILY Lythraceae

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

Rotala ramosior

 

COMMON NAME:
Toothcup, Lowland Rotala


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image of Rotala ramosior, Toothcup, Lowland Rotala

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_rora_001_lvd

        

image of Rotala ramosior, Toothcup, Lowland Rotala

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_rora_006_lvd

        

image of Rotala ramosior, Toothcup, Lowland Rotala

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_rotala_ramosior

August        

Leaves linear to narrowly lanceolate, short-tapered to both ends, sessile, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).

image of Rotala ramosior, Toothcup, Lowland Rotala

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_rotala_ramosiorb

August        

Petals absent or, if present, purplish-white and soon dropped, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Rotala ramosior   FAMILY Lythraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rotala ramosior   FAMILY Lythraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 10
Rotala ramosior

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 135-01-001:
Rotala ramosior   FAMILY Lythraceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3745

Forb
Annual

Habitat: marshes, ditches, exposed drawdown muds and silts, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (uncommon in Mountains of GA & NC)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves sessile
Margins entire

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White or purplish-white
4(-6) sepals
4 petals or petals absent
4 stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in leaf axils, usually solitary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Yellow-gold, golden-brown
Capsule

 

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