OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Ericales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Centunculus minimus   FAMILY Primulaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Anagallis minima   FAMILY Primulaceae

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

Lysimachia minima

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8 (2009)

Anagallis minima

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Anagallis minima

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 147-04-001:

Centunculus minimus   FAMILY Primulaceae

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

Centunculus minimus

 

COMMON NAME:
Chaffweed, False-pimpernel


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image of Centunculus minimus, Chaffweed, False-pimpernel

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_cemi_001_lvd

        

image of Centunculus minimus, Chaffweed, False-pimpernel

Keith Bradley    kab_l_minima_9932

March    Glades County    FL

Fisheating Creek Wildlife Management Area

Glabrous, 0.3-1.5dm tall, freely branched near decumbent base. Lvs 3-7mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Centunculus minimus   FAMILY Primulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Anagallis minima   FAMILY Primulaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8
Anagallis minima

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Anagallis minima

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 147-04-001:
Centunculus minimus   FAMILY Primulaceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3991

Forb
Winter annual

Habitat: Ditches, wet disturbed areas, pine savannas, pond margins, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare elsewhere

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (lower leaves sometimes opposite)
Leaves sessile
Margins entire

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White or pink
Flowers are almost sessile.
Radially symmetrical
4-5 lobed calyx
4-5 lobed salverform (almost rotate) to slightly campanulate corolla
(4-)5 stamens

Flowers solitary in leaf axils

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule

 

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