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|accepted_name=Lindernia grandiflora
|accepted_authority=Nuttall
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|place=2: 43. 1818
|year=1818
}}
|common_names=Savanna false-pimpernel
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ilysanthes grandiflora
|authority=(Nuttall) Bentham
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Linderniaceae;Lindernia;Lindernia grandiflora
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Linderniaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Lindernia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Lindernia grandiflora]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 354
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials.</b> Stems repent or prostrate, matted, rooting at proximal or most nodes, 2–30(–43) cm. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, thick; petiole absent; blade orbiculate, widely elliptic, or widely ovate, 2–16 × 1.5–16 mm, palmately 3–7-veined, leathery, margins entire, remotely toothed, or undulate; distal well developed or slightly reduced. <b>Pedicels</b> 6–38 mm, 2–5 times subtending leaves. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 2–5.8 mm, connate to 1/8 lengths; corolla tube and adaxial lip lavender or blue to white, abaxial lobes white with violet to blue spots or streaks, tube 5–9 mm, adaxial lip 1/4 abaxial; stamens 2; staminodes each with appendage and distal segment. <b>Capsules</b> ellipsoid, sometimes obliquely or narrowly ovoid, 2.3–6.9 × 1.2–2.5 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 6-angled, strongly ribbed.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Swamps, low woods and grasslands, wet depressions, ditches and along edges of streams and ponds, usually in sandy soil.
|elevation=0–50 m.
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.
|discussion=<p><i>Lindernia grandiflora</i> has been introduced into the horticultural trade in the southern United States as a container plant or groundcover for wet areas or in bogs or water gardens. It is sometimes sold under the name "Ilysanthes floribunda," which has no standing in botanical nomenclature, or as blue moneywort or angel's tears.</p>
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name=Lindernia grandiflora
|authority=Nuttall
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Ilysanthes grandiflora
|basionyms=
|family=Linderniaceae
|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Swamps, low woods and grasslands, wet depressions, ditches and along edges of streams and ponds, usually in sandy soil.
|elevation=0–50 m.
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|publication year=1818
|special status=Weedy;Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V17/V17_68.xml
|genus=Lindernia
|species=Lindernia grandiflora
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