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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Stylisma pickeringii var. pickeringii
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Stylisma at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
This rare species is easily recognizable by its growth form, with numerous stems arching from a central point, then trailing radially away, forming a mound 1-2 meters in diameter. The narrowly linear leaves are borne vertically, per Weakley's Flora (2022)
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stylisma pickeringii var. pickeringii
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Stylisma pickeringii var. pickeringii
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-03-001:
Bonamia pickeringii FAMILY Convolvulaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Breweria pickeringii
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Stylisma pickeringii
COMMON NAME:
Pickering's Dawnflower
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_s_pickeringii_pick6
June Scotland County NC
Leaves are linear and oriented vertically, to 5.5cm long x 3mm wide, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_s_pickeringii_pick6b
June Scotland County NC
One to three flowers grow on erect slender stalks from leaf axils, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_s_pickeringii_pick7
June Scotland County NC
Long skinny stems radiate like a huge pinwheel - nothing looks quite like it, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Stylisma pickeringii var. pickeringii
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stylisma pickeringii var. pickeringii
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Stylisma pickeringii var. pickeringii
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-03-001:
Bonamia pickeringii
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Breweria pickeringii
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Stylisma pickeringii
2560
Herbaceous vine
Perennial
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, usually in the driest, most barren, deep-sand areas, occasionally colonizing dry, disturbed areas in sandhills, such as sandy roadbanks, known from the Fall-line Sandhills, aeolian rims of Carolina bays, and sandhills on relict riverine dunes along Coastal Plain rivers, per Weakley's Flora
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Rare
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White
5-merous or rarely 4-merous
5 sepals
5-lobed campanulate to funnelform corolla
Superior ovary
Flowers in axillary clusters
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p123
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p238
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p304
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p387
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p105
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