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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Ruellia purshiana
FAMILY
Acanthaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Pursh's Wild-petunia at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ruellia purshiana
FAMILY
Acanthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Ruellia purshiana
SYNONYMOUS WITH The Genera of Acanthaceae in the Southeastern US (Long, 1970)
Ruellia purshiana
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 171-03-003:
Ruellia purshiana FAMILY Acanthaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Ruellia pedunculata
COMMON NAME:
Pursh's Wild-petunia
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Douglas Houck dhk_4055
May McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
Flowers usually solitary on axillary peduncles at middle and lower nodes, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Douglas Houck dhk_4058
May McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
Calyx lobes usually puberulent and pubescent, linear-setaceous, 2-2.5cm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Douglas Houck dhk_4101
May McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
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Douglas Houck dhk_4152
May McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm180506_473
May Crawford County GA
Plant unbranched or sparsely branched. Leaves ovate, lanceolate or elliptic, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm180506_497
May Crawford County GA
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JK Marlow jkm180506_497b
May Crawford County GA
Calyx pubescent, without cystoliths; calyx lobes 0.7-1.2 mm wide, per Weakley's Flora (2018).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Ruellia purshiana
FAMILY
Acanthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ruellia purshiana
FAMILY
Acanthaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Ruellia purshiana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The Genera of Acanthaceae in the Southeastern US (Long, 1970)
Ruellia purshiana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 171-03-003:
Ruellia purshiana
FAMILY
Acanthaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Ruellia pedunculata
3513
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Dry woodlands and forests, especially over mafic or calcareous rocks, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon in Piedmont of GA & SC (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Petioles to 10mm long
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Blue-violet
(rarely pink)
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed funnelform corolla
4 included stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p252
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p296
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