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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
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.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stylisma pickeringii var. pickeringii
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-03-001:
Bonamia pickeringii
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
COMMON NAME:
Pickering's Dawnflower, Pickering's Morning Glory
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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.
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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.
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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.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Stylisma pickeringii var. pickeringii
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stylisma pickeringii var. pickeringii
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-03-001:
Bonamia pickeringii
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
2560
Herbaceous vine
Perennial
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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
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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 p123
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p238
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia p387
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p105