Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Cathartolinum striatum (Walt.) Small
I. mum striatum Walt. Fl. Car. 117. 1788.
Linum virginianum diffusion Wood, Class Book. ed. 2. 195. 1848.
Linton virginianum opposiiifolium Engelm. in A. Gray, PI. Wright. 1 : 26. 1852.
Union diffusion Wood, Bot. & Fl. 66. 1870.
Perennial, glabrous, bright-green, the stems solitary or several from the persistent base, erect or decumbent, 2-11 dm. tall, paniculately branched, typically with many short spreading or ascending branches arising from the upper leaf-axils, winged below the nodes and angled ; leaves opposite below the inflorescence or sometimes all alternate, spreading or ascending, the blades thinuish, oblong to elliptic, or sometimes oblong-spatulate near the base of the stem, 1-3 cm. long, entire, acute, or those of the lower leaves obtuse, slightly paler beneath than above ; bracts entire ; outer sepals lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 2-2.5 mm. long at maturity, acuminate, entire ; inner sepals shorter and broader than the outer ones, entire, or erose near the abruptly pointed apex by the bases of the fewdeciduous marginal glands; petals yellow; capsules depressed-globose, about 2 mm. broad.
Type locality : Carolina.
Distribution : Ontario to Florida and Texas.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, Lenda Tracy Hanks, Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1907. GERANIALES, GERANIACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, LINACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE. North American flora. vol 25(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
