2024 Edition • Donate • Get the App • Cite this Page
X

Colors

Data mode

Account

Login
Sign up

Support FSUS...

We've finished our 2024 fundraiser. Many thanks to those who have given! It's not too late to support us (click here)...

Copy permalink to share

Bartonia virginica (Linnaeus) Britton, Sterns, & Poggenburg. Virginia Bartonia, Yellow Bartonia. Phen: Jul-Oct; Sep-Oct. Hab: Bogs, swamps, pine savannas, pocosin ecotones, pocosins, dune swales. Dist: NS and QC west to WI, south to s. FL, LA, and e. TX (J. Singhurst, pers.comm. 2023).

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Synonymy ⓘ: = C, F, Fl5, G, GW2, Il, K1, K3, K4, Mi, NE, NY, Pa, RAB, S, Tat, Tn, Va, WH3, Drake (2011), Gillett (1959), Mathews et al (2009)

Show in key(s)

Show parent genus

Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACW
  • Midwest: FACW
  • Northcentral & Northeast: FACW

Heliophily ⓘ: 7

Your browser does not support SVGs

Hover over a shape, letter, icon, or arrow on the map for definition or see the legend.

image of plant© Alan M. Cressler | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Gary P. Fleming | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Erik Danielson source | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Alan M. Cressler | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Becky Dill | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Becky Dill | Original Image ⭷

Feedback

See something wrong or missing on about Bartonia virginica? Let us know here: (Please include your name and email if at all complicated so we can clarify if needed.) We greatly appreciate feedback, and will include updates from you in our next webapp update, which can take a few months.


Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Erect wiry annual of bogs, swamps, savannas, pocosin ecotones, pocosins and dune swales.

Stems: Stem stiff and often twisted, smooth.

Leaves: Leaves opposite, scale-like.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers erect in a narrow, raceme-like panicle; yellowish-green, less than 1/4 in. long, egg-shaped in that they are essentially closed, consisting of 4 oblong petals that are typically pressed against the ovary and 4 short, lance-shaped sepals.

Fruits: Fruit a tiny, oval capsule.

Comments:

Height: 4-16 in.

plant sale text:

bloom table text:

description: Erect wiry annual of bogs, swamps, savannas, pocosin ecotones, pocosins and dune swales.

stems: Stem stiff and often twisted, smooth.

leaves: Leaves opposite, scale-like.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers erect in a narrow, raceme-like panicle; yellowish-green, less than 1/4 in. long, egg-shaped in that they are essentially closed, consisting of 4 oblong petals that are typically pressed against the ovary and 4 short, lance-shaped sepals.

fruits: Fruit a tiny, oval capsule.

comments:

cultural notes:

germination code:

native range: