North Carolina Wildflowers

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Acanthaceae > Ruellia

Carolina Wild-petunia (Ruellia caroliniensis) Carolina Wild-petunia (Ruellia caroliniensis)
Person Co., NC
13 June 2006

Common statewide in NC in various habitats.

Carolina Wild-petunia (Ruellia caroliniensis) Carolina Wild-petunia (Ruellia caroliniensis)
Durham Co., NC
5 Aug 2006

Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Common names from personal experience and supplemented by the following resources USDA plants website, Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and NatureServe.


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