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Campanulaceae
Wahlenbergia

not marked as a favorite taxon *Wahlenbergia marginata (Thunberg) A.L.P.P. de Candolle. Phenology: Feb-Dec. Habitat: Soils (especially sandy) along roadsides and in fields. Distribution: Native of e. Asia and Oceania. Apparently only relatively recently introduced in se. United States, the earliest recorded date 1937 in Alachua County, FL (Rosatti 1986), but now quite common on sandy roadsides.

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Origin/Endemic status: E. and se. Asia

Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, Fl7, K4, RAB, WH3, Rosatti (1986); ~ Wahlenbergia gracilis (G.Forst.) DC.; Campanula marginata Thunberg. Basionym: Campanula marginata Thunb. 1784

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Heliophily ⓘ: 6

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image #1 of Wahlenbergia marginata© Keith Bradley | Original Image ⭷
image #2 of Wahlenbergia marginata© Erik Danielson source | Original Image ⭷
image #3 of Wahlenbergia marginata© Bruce A. Sorrie | Original Image ⭷
image #4 of Wahlenbergia marginata© Erik Danielson source | Original Image ⭷
image #5 of Wahlenbergia marginata© Erik Danielson source | Original Image ⭷
image #6 of Wahlenbergia marginata© Sonnia Hill | Original Image ⭷

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NCBG trait

Intro: Erect perennial of sandy soils along roadsides and in fields. Native of e. Asia and Oceania.

Stems: Stems several in a clump, slender, branched, tinged with red, smooth.

Leaves: Leaves mostly near base of stem, alternate, linear to lance-shaped, to 1 1/2 in. long (uppermost leaves reduced to bracts), with wavy to toothed margins, smooth.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers solitary at ends of branches, blue, 1/2 in. wide, tubular with 5 spreading, pointed corolla lobes and a cylindric calyx with 5 narrow, erect, pointed lobes situated below the corolla.

Fruits: Fruit an erect, cylindric, red capsule with persistent calyx lobes.

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Height: 1-2 ft.

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description: Erect perennial of sandy soils along roadsides and in fields. Native of e. Asia and Oceania.

stems: Stems several in a clump, slender, branched, tinged with red, smooth.

leaves: Leaves mostly near base of stem, alternate, linear to lance-shaped, to 1 1/2 in. long (uppermost leaves reduced to bracts), with wavy to toothed margins, smooth.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers solitary at ends of branches, blue, 1/2 in. wide, tubular with 5 spreading, pointed corolla lobes and a cylindric calyx with 5 narrow, erect, pointed lobes situated below the corolla.

fruits: Fruit an erect, cylindric, red capsule with persistent calyx lobes.

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