Bartonia

(Bartonia virginica)

 

Color Photograph: NRCS Plants Database, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

 

Bartonia (Bartonia virginica)

Identification: Flowers small, yellow, tubular, with only 4 minute petal lobes projecting, the rest encased in a bracket of sepals. Flowers on long flower stems, bent upward. Stem wiry, 5-angled, without leaves. Leaves replaced with paired scales. Plant 4 to 12 inches in height.

Distribution: Throughout eastern North America in its proper habitat.

Habitat: Bartonia is a species of bogs.

Flowering period: July to September.

Bartonia (Bartonia virginica)

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The small, yellow flowers, habitat, 5-angled stem, and the small scales replacing the leaves readily identify this species.

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