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
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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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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).
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
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