Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Boraginales? order assignment uncertain
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Lithospermum caroliniense
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lithospermum caroliniense var. caroliniense
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-05-002:
Lithospermum caroliniense
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Batschia caroliniensis
COMMON NAME:
Coastal Plain Puccoon, Hairy Puccoon, Sandhill Puccoon
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Lithospermum caroliniense
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lithospermum caroliniense var. caroliniense
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-05-002:
Lithospermum caroliniense
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Batschia caroliniensis
2551
Forb
Perennial
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA - SC
Common (rare north of southern SC), endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Look for it in sandhills, dry sandy soils, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly alternate
Margins entire
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellow-orange
Bisexual
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed funnelform corolla
5 stamens
Superior ovary
Flowers in dense leafy cymes
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
White
Schizocarp of specialized mericarps (nutlets)
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p185
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p227
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p243
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p112