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Read more about Spreading Eryngo at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Apiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Eryngium prostratum
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eryngium prostratum
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-04-001:
Eryngium prostratum
FAMILY
Apiaceae
COMMON NAME:
Spreading Eryngo, Creeping Eryngo
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_erpr5_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm140604_030
June Greenville County SC
Furman University
Bracts linear, usually 1x+ long as heads, often strongly reflexed at maturity, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm140604_032
June Greenville County SC
Furman University
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JK Marlow jkm140604_451
June Greenville County SC
Furman University
A creeping species whose leaves are very irregularly toothed or lobed, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm140611_724
June Greenville County SC
Furman University
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JK Marlow jkm140612_789
June Greenville County SC
Furman University
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmeprostratum_wadakoeb
June Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_e_prostratum_15
July
Flower heads pale to dark blue, cylindric, solitary from leaf axils, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_eryngium_prostratum
July
Bracts subtending the head extending conspicuously beyond its base, per Weakley's Flora (2012).