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Forb
Annual/Perennial

Non-native: South America (mainly Brazil)

Documented growing wild in - - -

Rare. Reported just south of our area and "rapidly spreading"

Look for it in disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

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Invasive?

This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:

• Forest Health Assessment & Applied Sciences Team: New Invaders of the Southeast

 

 

...Variable ...Dry

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Margins entire
Leaves are subtended by fringed stipules.

FLOWER:
Winter/SpringFall
Pink to lilac or almost white
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
6-lobed calyx
6-lobed funnelform corolla
6 stamens

FRUIT:
Winter/SpringFall

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• New Invaders of the Southeast p035

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Richardia grandiflora   FAMILY Rubiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Richardia grandiflora   FAMILY Rubiaceae