Commelina virginica

Linnaeus

Sp. Pl., ed. 2 1: 61. 1762.

IllustratedEndemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 22.

Herbs, perennial. Roots: rhizomes present. Stems erect to ascending, to 1 m. Leaves spirally arranged; leaf sheaths with red hairs at summit; blade lanceolate-elliptic to lanceolate-oblong, 6–20 × 1–5 cm, apex acuminate. Inflorescences: distal cyme vestigial, included (very rarely 1-flowered and exserted); spathes clustered, subsessile, funnelform, 1.5–3.5 × 1.2–2 cm, margins connate basally, glabrous (rarely puberulent). Flowers bisexual (rarely staminate); petals all pale blue, proximal one smaller; staminodes 3; antherodes entirely yellow, cruciform. Capsules 3-locular, 2-valved, (5.5–)6–9 × 3–6 mm. Seeds 5, brown, (2.4–)3–5(–6) × 2.4–3.1 mm, smooth with a few, shallow, irregular depressions, farinose. n = 30.


Phenology: Flowering midsummer–fall.
Habitat: Wet places, especially swamps, river and stream banks, ditches, and bottomlands, shade or full sun

Distribution

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Ala., Ark., Del., D.C., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Ky., La., Md., Miss., Mo., N.J., N.C., Okla., Pa., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Va.

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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Robert B. Faden +
Linnaeus +
Ala. +, Ark. +, Del. +, D.C. +, Fla. +, Ga. +, Ill. +, Ind. +, Ky. +, La. +, Md. +, Miss. +, Mo. +, N.J. +, N.C. +, Okla. +, Pa. +, S.C. +, Tenn. +, Tex. +  and Va. +
Wet places, especially swamps, river and stream banks, ditches, and bottomlands, shade or full sun +
Flowering midsummer–fall. +
Sp. Pl., ed. 2 +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
Commelina virginica +
Commelina +
species +