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4 Petals

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Rubiaceae - Coffee family

Poorjoe (Rough Buttonweed) Diodia teres

Lavender to whitish funnel flowers have 4 lobes, up to about 1/4" wide, but impoverished flowers can be very tiny.  Long bristles (margin of the stipules) surrounding flowers are white but turn red when distressed.  Fruit is red with a 4 pointed green crown (persistent sepals).  Linear leaves, up to 2" long, grow opposite and appear whorled with smaller leaf-like stipules and flowers.  Leaf axis spacing can be wide or narrow depending on conditions.  Plant erect to prostrate, 8" long (but the above was over a foot long), single stem from a taproot.  This plant can be found in the most inhospitable locations and regrows after being mowed.

Photos taken in Taylor County, Texas, August 2004

(Native of Texas)

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Photos taken in Van Zandt County, Texas, November 2006

Similar Species

Buttonweed Diodia virginiana

Flower has an elongated tube base.  Leaves small and fringed.

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