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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
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Read more about Field Madder at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Gentianales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Galium sherardia
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sherardia arvensis
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 173-09-001:
Sherardia arvensis
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
COMMON NAME:
Field Madder, Blue Field Madder
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_shar2_001_lvd
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Gill Newberry gn04_sherardia_flowers2
April
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Gill Newberry gn04_sherardia_lvs
April
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JK Marlow jkm170410_365
April Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm170410_367b
April Greenville County SC
Inflorescence involucrate, flowers more tubular & pink-purple vs. other Galium, per Weakley's Flora.
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Roxanna Martin rlm4911_86
April Spartanburg County SC
Tiny flowers occur in heads surrounded by a whorl of involucral leaves, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Roxanna Martin rlm4911_92
April Spartanburg County SC
Corolla tube about 0.12" long, 3x longer than the spreading lobes, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm200508_4789
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Rough square stems & hairy sharp-pointed leaves in whorls of 6, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm200508_4793
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm0506e_35
June Greenville County SC
The clover leaf provides scale.