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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Edrastima uniflora
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Clustered Bluet at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oldenlandia uniflora
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Edrastima uniflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Hedyotis uniflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 173-07-001:
Oldenlandia uniflora FAMILY Rubiaceae
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Oldenlandia fasciculata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Oldenlandia uniflora
COMMON NAME:
Oldenlandia, Clustered Bluet
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_olun_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Edrastima uniflora
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oldenlandia uniflora
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Edrastima uniflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Hedyotis uniflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 173-07-001:
Oldenlandia uniflora
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Oldenlandia fasciculata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Oldenlandia uniflora
4376
Forb
Annual
Habitat: Pondshores, muddy drawdown shores, moist to wet ecotones of Coastal Plain streamheads, other moist to wet places, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
White
Radially symmetrical
4-lobed calyx
4-lobed rotate corolla
4 stamens
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p104
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p317
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