Gratiola virginiana L. var. virginiana
Detail
- Family
- Plantaginaceae
- Botanical Name
- Gratiola virginiana L. var. virginiana
- Common Name
- Round-fruit Hedge-hyssop
- Synonym(s)
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Gratiola virginiana L.
- Comments
- Plants of estuarine region wetlands, either tidally inundated or seasonally flooded (in adjacent non-tidal wetlands), produce sessile, self-pollinating flowers and have wide, rounded leaves; they have been called var. aestuariorum Pennell, which is treated separately here (see taxon page and map). A similar variant of Lindernia dubia (var. inundata) also occurs.
- Habitat
- Alluvial swamps, floodplain ponds and pools, seepage swamp hollows, depression ponds, muddy bars and shores, 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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