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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Spermacoce remota   FAMILY Rubiaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spermacoce assurgens   FAMILY Rubiaceae

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

Spermacoce remota

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

Borreria laevis

 

COMMON NAME:
Woodland Buttonweed


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image of Spermacoce remota, Woodland Buttonweed

Keith Bradley    kab_s_assurgens_76798

July    Miami-Dade County    FL

Leaves narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, 4-16mm wide, per Flora of China.

image of Spermacoce remota, Woodland Buttonweed

Keith Bradley    kab_s_assurgens_76798b

July    Miami-Dade County    FL

Calyx puberulent or hirtellous to glabrescent. Corolla white, funnelform, per Flora of China.

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Spermacoce remota   FAMILY Rubiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Spermacoce assurgens   FAMILY Rubiaceae

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

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4089

Subshrub; Forb
Annual/Perennial

Habitat: Wet hammocks, bottomland forests, marshes, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Margins entire

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White with a pink throat
Radially symmetrical
4-lobed calyx
4-lobed funnelform corolla
4 stamens
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall

 

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