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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Bartonia virginica
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Virginia Bartonia at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bartonia virginica
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Bartonia verna
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-04-002:
Bartonia virginica FAMILY Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Bartonia virginica
COMMON NAME:
Virginia Bartonia, Yellow Screwstem, Yellow Bartonia, Common Bartonia
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Tiny flowers, with corolla lobes erect or ascending, on a wiry 4-16" stem, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Bartonia virginica
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bartonia virginica
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Bartonia verna
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-04-002:
Bartonia virginica
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Bartonia virginica
2417
Forb
Annual
Habitat: bogs, swamps, savannas, pocosin ecotones, pocosins, dune swales, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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LEAVES:
Simple - scale-like, inconspicuous
Midstem leaves opposite; other leaves mostly opposite or subopposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Straw-colored or creamy-white
(greenish or purplish towards apex)
Radially symmetrical
4 sepals
4 petals
4 stamens
Inflorescence an ascending raceme or narrow panicle
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p137
- Gentians of the Eastern US (Drake, 2011) p034
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p126
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p114
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p212
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p184
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p179
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