Bergia texana

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Malpighiales

Familia: Elatinaceae
Genus: Bergia
Species: Bergia texana
Name

Bergia texana (Hook.) Seub. in W.G.Walpers, Repert. Bot. Syst. 1: 285 (1842).
Synonyms

Basionym
Merimea texana Hook., Hooker's Icon. Pl. 3: t. 278 (1840).
Homotypic
Elatine texana (Hook.) Torr. & A.Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 678 (1840).

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental:Northern America
USA (Arkansas, California, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington State), Mexico (Baja California Norte, Baja California Sur, Nuevo Leon, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas)

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Seubert, M.A. in W.G.Walpers, 1842. Repertorium Botanices Systematicae 1: 285.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Bergia texana in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Apr 13. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Bergia texana in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Apr 13. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Bergia texana. Published online. Accessed: Apr 13 2020.
Tropicos.org 2020. Bergia texana. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Apr 13.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Bergia texana in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 09-Oct-10.

Vernacular names
English: Texas bergia

Bergia texana is a species of flowering plant in the waterwort family known by the common name Texas bergia. It is native to the western and central United States and northern Mexico, where it is a plant of wetlands, living in mud and moist soils along the edges of rivers and pools. This is an annual or perennial herb producing a branching, glandular, hairy stem which grows upright or trailing up to 30 centimeters long. The leaves are 2 to 4 centimeters long, mainly oval in shape and pointed, and lightly toothed along the edges. The inflorescences appear at the tips of stem branches and in the leaf axils, bearing single flowers or small clusters. Each small flower has five green sepals and five greenish white petals. Some of the flowers open, while others are cleistogamous, remaining closed and self-pollinating. The fruit is an oval capsule with many seeds in each of its five chambers.
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