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Your search found 8 taxa in the family Eriocaulaceae, Pipewort family, as understood by PLANTS National Database.
Common Name: Ravenel's Pipewort
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Eriocaulon ravenelii FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Eriocaulon ravenelii FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Eriocaulon ravenelii 036-01-001 FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae
Habitat: Calcareous wet pine flatwoods and prairies
Historically in SC, but not recently seen
Native to South Carolina
Common Name: Ten-angle Pipewort, Hat Pin, Hard Pipewort
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Eriocaulon decangulare var. decangulare FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Eriocaulon decangulare var. decangulare FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Eriocaulon decangulare 036-01-002 FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae
Habitat: Wet pine savannas and pine flatwoods, bogs, mafic fens and seeps, seasonally flooded ponds, seepage bogs and swamps, wind-tidal marshes, sea-level fens
Common in Coastal Plain (uncommon to rare elsewhere)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Flattened Pipewort, Soft-headed Pipewort, Hat Pin
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Eriocaulon compressum FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Eriocaulon compressum FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Eriocaulon compressum 036-01-003 FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae
Habitat: Ponds, lakes, other depressions, wetter places in pine flatwoods and pine savannas, acidic seeps, Atlantic white cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides) swamps
Common in Coastal Plain
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Texas Hatpins, Texas Pipewort
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Eriocaulon texense FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Eriocaulon texense FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae
Habitat: Sandhill seepage bogs, Altamaha Grit outcrops, seepage over the Catahoula in the West Gulf Coastal Plain, seepage over granite in the Blue Ridge Escarpment
Rare
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Yellow Hatpins, Bantam-buttons
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Syngonanthus flavidulus FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Syngonanthus flavidulus FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Syngonanthus flavidulus 036-02-001 FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae
Habitat: Pine savannas, pine flatwoods, borders of pineland ponds, and adjacent ditches
Uncommon
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Southern Bogbuttons
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Lachnocaulon beyrichianum FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Lachnocaulon beyrichianum FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Lachnocaulon beyrichianum 036-03-001 FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae
Habitat: Scrubby flatwoods, flatwoods, upper margins of Coastal Plain doline ponds (sometimes under scrub oaks)
Uncommon in NC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Brown Bogbutton
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Lachnocaulon minus FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Lachnocaulon minus FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Lachnocaulon minus 036-03-002 FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae
Habitat: Upper margins of Coastal Plain doline ponds, other pineland situations, ditches through wet pine savannas, wet 'scrapes'
Uncommon in GA, rare in Carolinas
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Common Bogbuttons, Savanna Bogbuttons, Whitehead Bogbutton
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Lachnocaulon anceps FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Lachnocaulon anceps FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Lachnocaulon anceps 036-03-003 FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae
Habitat: Moist to dry sands, moist peats, in pinelands, sometimes locally abundant in open disturbed areas where competition has been removed
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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