OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Mecardonia acuminata var. acuminata   FAMILY Plantaginaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Mecardonia acuminata var. acuminata   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-06-001:

Mecardonia acuminata   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

 

COMMON NAME:
Mecardonia, Common Axilflower


 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Mecardonia acuminata var. acuminata   FAMILY Plantaginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Mecardonia acuminata var. acuminata   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-06-001:
Mecardonia acuminata   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

 

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2286

Subshrub; Forb
Perennial

Habitat: marshes, ditches, wet pine savannas, bottomland forests, wet disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White (with purple lines)
5 sepals
2-lipped 5-lobed tubular to narrowly campanulate corolla
4 fertile stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers solitary in leaf axils

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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