Gratiola virginiana L.

Locations ofGratiola virginiana L. in Virginia

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Family
Plantaginaceae
Botanical Name
Gratiola virginiana L.
Common Name
Round-fruit Hedge-hyssop
Synonym(s)
Flora of Virginia Name/Status
Gratiola virginiana L.
Comments
Plants of the intertidal region, regularly or entirely inundated, produce sessile, self-pollinating flowers and have been called var. aestuariorum Pennell. Similar forms of Lindernia dubia also occur.
Habitat
Alluvial swamps, floodplain ponds and pools, seepage swamp hollows, depression ponds, muddy bars and shores, maritime swamps, tidal swamps, freshwater tidal shores and mud flats, and impoundments; typically in seasonally flooded habitats. Common in the Coastal Plain; more local in the Piedmont; disjunct to a mountain sinkhole pond in Rockbridge County.
Native Status
Native

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