Diodia virginiana
Rubiaceae
opposite
sessile
serrulate
simple
linear, oblong, elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate
forb, shrub
white
3
May - November
0.1 - 0.8
No
Unarmed
native
annual, perennial
Warm season
FACW
2
4
Hairy stem. 1 white flower in each leaf axil. Few flattened bristles in leaf axils. Colored stem where leaves meet. 2(3) calyx segments.Look alike: Spermacoce glabra- no hairs on stem, cluster of flowers in leaf axils. Diodia teres has narrower leaves, thread-like stipular brist, pinkish flowers.
Tough and bitter, not palatable to cattle.
Found thriving on almost any type of soil from sands to shales and mud bottomlands. It is generally restricted to the southeastern United States. It ranges from the gulf states to Iowa and Connecticut but its best zone seems to be from Maryland, Virgini
Savannas, wet ditches, margins of streams, marshes, swamps, coastal prairies and ponds.