OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Gentianales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Obolaria virginica   FAMILY Gentianaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Obolaria virginica   FAMILY Gentianaceae

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

Obolaria virginica

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-05-001:

Obolaria virginica   FAMILY Gentianaceae

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

Obolaria virginica

 

COMMON NAME:
Pennywort, Virginia Pennywort


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image of Obolaria virginica, Pennywort, Virginia Pennywort

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_obvi_001_lvd

        

image of Obolaria virginica, Pennywort, Virginia Pennywort

JK Marlow    jkm140322_315b

March    Oconee County    SC

Oconee Station/Station Cove

Flowers approximately 12mm long, four-lobed with pointed tips, per Gentians of the Eastern US (Drake, 2011).

image of Obolaria virginica, Pennywort, Virginia Pennywort

JK Marlow    jkm140322_386

March    Oconee County    SC

Oconee Station/Station Cove

image of Obolaria virginica, Pennywort, Virginia Pennywort

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_o_virginica_1

March    Walker County    GA

image of Obolaria virginica, Pennywort, Virginia Pennywort

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_obolaria_virginica

March        

image of Obolaria virginica, Pennywort, Virginia Pennywort

JK Marlow    jkm090404_331

April    Walker County    GA

Pigeon Mountain

Flowers subtended by obovate, wedge-shaped greenish-purple bracts of leaves, per Gentians of the Eastern US (Drake, 2011).

image of Obolaria virginica, Pennywort, Virginia Pennywort

JK Marlow    jkm120414_945

April    Pickens County    SC

Jocassee Gorges

Funnel-shaped corolla cleft to about the middle with 4 pointed lobes, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Obolaria virginica, Pennywort, Virginia Pennywort

JK Marlow    jkm150423_606

April    Sevier County    TN

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Leaves thick and fleshy, greenish to greenish-purple, and 7-14mm long, per Gentians of the Eastern US (Drake, 2011).

image of Obolaria virginica, Pennywort, Virginia Pennywort

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmovirginica_jocassee

April    Pickens County    SC

Jocassee Gorges

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Obolaria virginica   FAMILY Gentianaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Obolaria virginica   FAMILY Gentianaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 155-05-001:
Obolaria virginica   FAMILY Gentianaceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

979

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Nutrient-rich, moist to dry forests, mesic hammocks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Mountains & Carolina Piedmont, uncommon to rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White/ Purplish
Radially symmetrical
Calyx absent, flower subtended by 2 foliaceous bracts
4-lobed funnelform corolla
4 stamens

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule

 

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