Virginia Marbleseed
Lithospermum virginianum Linnaeus
Virginia Marbleseed: https://marylandbiodiversity.com/species/2288
Synonyms
Onosmodium virginianum  Virginia False Gromwell  Wild Job's Tears 
Tags
Endangered (MD) S1 (Highly state rare)

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4 Records

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Status

Virginia Marbleseed (also known as Virginia False Gromwell and Wild Job's Tears) is a perennial herb that had a known original range of much of the eastern United States, but it is now endangered in Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York; extirpated in Pennsylvania; and historical in Rhode Island, according to the United States Department of Agriculture (2020). Brown and Brown (1984) considered this species infrequent in the Maryland Piedmont and Coastal Plain. It may now be only a historical plant in Maryland (Barrows, et al., 2013). Virginia Marbleseed's habitat is dry sandy woods, open sands, and pinelands (Fernald, 1950).

Relationships

A study by Barrows, et al. (2013) over two growing seasons at Great Falls Park and Chub Sandhill Natural Area, both in Virginia, yielded data "consistent with the hypothesis that L. virginianum requires animal pollination for maximum seed set." The insects they observed visiting the flowers included bumble bees, wasps, butterflies, and moths, and the specific flower visitors differed among the plant's locations.

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Onosmodium virginianum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Boraginales
Family: Boraginaceae
Genus: Onosmodium
Species:
O. virginianum
Binomial name
Onosmodium virginianum
(L.) A.DC.
Synonyms

Lithospermum virginianum

Onosmodium virginianum

Onosmodium virginianum, common names gravel-weed, wild Job's tears, false gromwell, and Virginia false-gromwell is perennial plant native to the eastern United States.[1]

Conservation status

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It is endangered in Connecticut,[2] Maryland, New Jersey, New York (state), extirpated in Pennsylvania, and as historical in Rhode Island.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Plants Profile for Onosmodium virginianum (wild Job's tears)". plants.usda.gov. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  2. ^ "Connecticut's Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Species 2015". State of Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Bureau of Natural Resources. Retrieved 31 December 2017.(Note: This list is newer than the one used by plants.usda.gov and is more up-to-date.)
  3. ^ "Plants Profile for Onosmodium virginianum (wild Job's tears)". plants.usda.gov. Retrieved 1 June 2018.


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