Napaea dioica L.
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- Family
- Malvaceae
- Botanical Name
- Napaea dioica L.
- Common Name
- Glade Mallow
- Synonym(s)
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Napaea dioica L.
- Comments
- Likely native as the species was named by Linnaeus in 1753, before explorers had reached it's main range in the upper Midwest; see Castanea 63:88 (1998) for an account of the species' discovery in Virginia.
- Habitat
- Low, moist, graminoid-dominated floodplain meadows, with associates including Carex suberecta, C. pellita, Glyceria acutiflora, and Spartina pectinata. Rare, sw. mountains; known only from the valley of Reed Creek, a New River tributary in southwest Virginia (Ridge and Valley province).
- Native Status
- Native
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