View source for Commelina caroliniana

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|accepted_name=Commelina caroliniana
|accepted_authority=Walter
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Flora Caroliniana, secundum.
|place=68. 1788
|year=1788
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Commelinaceae;Commelina;Commelina caroliniana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Commelinaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Commelina]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Commelina caroliniana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, diffusely spreading. <b>Roots</b> at nodes. <b>Stems</b> decumbent to scandent. <b>Leaves</b>: blade lanceolate to lanceolate-elliptic or lanceolate-oblong, 2.5–10.5 × 0.7–2.4 cm, margins scabrous, apex acute to acuminate, glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b>: distal cyme vestigial, included (rarely 1-flowered and exserted); spathes solitary, bright green, paler basally, without contrasting veins, pedunculate, not at all to slightly falcate, 1.2–3(–3.7) × 0.5–1 cm, margins distinct, usually ciliate, apex acuminate, glabrous or very sparsely pilose; peduncles 0.6–2.3 cm. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; petals all blue, proximal petal white medially, smaller; medial stamen with white connective; staminodes 3; antherodes yellow, often with central maroon spot, cruciform. <b>Capsules</b> 3-locular, 2-valved, (5–)6–8 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 5, dark brown, 2.4–4.3(–4.6) × (1.6–)2–2.3 mm, smooth to faintly alveolate, mealy. <b>2n</b> = ca. 86.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall (rarely winter).
|habitat=Fields, roadsides, railroad rights-of-way, yards, waste places, especially in moist situations, weed in crops, especially rice, sugar cane and corn, and rarely in forests
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;native;India.
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=faden1989a
|text=Faden, R. B. 1989. Commelina caroliniana (Commelinaceae): A misunderstood species in the United States is an old introduction from Asia. Taxon 38: 43--53.
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name=Commelina caroliniana
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|authority=Walter
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Commelinaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall (rarely winter).
|habitat=Fields, roadsides, railroad rights-of-way, yards, waste places, especially in moist situations, weed in crops, especially rice, sugar cane and corn, and rarely in forests
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Md.;Miss.;Mo.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;native;India.
|introduced=true
|reference=faden1989a
|publication title=Flora Caroliniana, secundum.
|publication year=1788
|special status=
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|genus=Commelina
|species=Commelina caroliniana
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