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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Bartonia paniculata ssp. paniculata
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bartonia paniculata ssp. paniculata
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Bartonia paniculata ssp. paniculata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Bartonia paniculata ssp. paniculata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Bartonia paniculata var. paniculata
INCLUDED WITHIN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Bartonia paniculata
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-04-003:
Bartonia paniculata FAMILY Gentianaceae
COMMON NAME:
Screwstem Bartonia
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Bartonia paniculata ssp. paniculata
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bartonia paniculata ssp. paniculata
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Bartonia paniculata ssp. paniculata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Bartonia paniculata ssp. paniculata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Bartonia paniculata var. paniculata
INCLUDED WITHIN
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Bartonia paniculata
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-04-003:
Bartonia paniculata
FAMILY
Gentianaceae
4676
Stems occasionally twining, vine-like; Forb
Annual/Biennial
Habitat: swamps, bogs, pocosins, pocosin ecotones, sphagnous seepages, sinkhole ponds, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon (rare in Carolina Mountains & NC Piedmont)
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LEAVES:
Simple - scale-like, inconspicuous
Midstem leaves alternate; other leaves opposite, subopposite, alternate or mixed
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Straw-colored or creamy-white
Radially symmetrical
4 sepals
4 petals
4 stamens
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p113
- 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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