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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Dichondra carolinensis
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Carolina Pony's-foot at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dichondra carolinensis
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Dichondra carolinensis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Dichondra carolinensis
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-02-001:
Dichondra carolinensis FAMILY Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Dichondra repens var. carolinensis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Dichondra carolinensis
COMMON NAME:
Carolina Ponyfoot
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_dica3_001_lvd
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Keith Bradley kab_d_carolinensis_0155
March Miami-Dade County FL
With imagination the leaves resemble the hooves of a horse, thus "ponyfoot", per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_d_carolinensis_9545
March Catawba County NC
Flowers densely hairy, less than 1/4" wide, borne singly in the leaf axils, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_d_carolinensis_9550
March Catawba County NC
Get down on your hands and knees for a clear look at this tiny flower, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_d_carolinensis_4348
May Iredell County NC
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_d_carolinensis_1
September Catawba County NC
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_d_carolinensis_2
September Catawba County NC
Conspicuous mats of the 1" leaves visible much of the year, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Dichondra carolinensis
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dichondra carolinensis
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Dichondra carolinensis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Dichondra carolinensis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-02-001:
Dichondra carolinensis
FAMILY
Convolvulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Dichondra repens var. carolinensis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Dichondra carolinensis
3148
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Lawns, roadsides, moist pinelands, mesic hammocks, floodplain forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Coastal Plain of the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (rare in NC Piedmont)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Does not have milky sap
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
White
5-merous
5-lobed rotate-campanulate corolla
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p122
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p117
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p071
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