Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Diodia virginiana
Diodia virginiana L.
Virginia Buttonweed, Buttonweed
Rubiaceae (Madder Family)
USDA Symbol: DIVI3USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
Specimen & Label Data
Dioda virginiana
Button Weed
Rubiaceae
Location: In ditch, 45 m south of wooden bridge--Oakwell Farms.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: In alkaline mud and standing water. Full sun. Dense colony. Little else growing there.
Description: Ascending perennial from fibrous roots, rooting at nodes, to 45 cm tall. Most fork in upper third, some lower or not at all. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, to 1 x 6 cm, glabrous. Corolla white, tubular, flaring to 4 salverform lobes. Fruit leathery, 6-ribbed, crowned by 2 prominent calyx teeth.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Jun 27, 1987
Specimen number: 240
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0467
Accession Date: Jul 27, 1993
Accession Number: 36
Annotations: SCFRB