OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Myrtales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Rotala ramosior   FAMILY Lythraceae   Go to FSUS key


SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rotala ramosior   FAMILY Lythraceae

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

Rotala ramosior

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 135-01-001:

Rotala ramosior   FAMILY Lythraceae

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

Rotala ramosior

 

COMMON NAME:
Toothcup, Lowland Rotala


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image of Rotala ramosior, Toothcup, Lowland Rotala

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_rora_001_lvd

        

image of Rotala ramosior, Toothcup, Lowland Rotala

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_rora_006_lvd

        

image of Rotala ramosior, Toothcup, Lowland Rotala

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_rotala_ramosior

August        

Leaves linear to narrowly lanceolate, short-tapered to both ends, sessile, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).

image of Rotala ramosior, Toothcup, Lowland Rotala

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_rotala_ramosiorb

August        

Petals absent or, if present, purplish-white and soon dropped, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Rotala ramosior   FAMILY Lythraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rotala ramosior   FAMILY Lythraceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 135-01-001:
Rotala ramosior   FAMILY Lythraceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3745

Forb
Annual

Habitat: marshes, ditches, exposed drawdown muds and silts, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (uncommon in Mountains of GA & NC)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves sessile
Margins entire

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White or purplish-white
Bisexual
4(-6) sepals
4 petals or petals absent
4 stamens
Superior ovary

Flowers in leaf axils, usually solitary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Yellow-gold, golden-brown
Capsule

 

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