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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Krameria lanceolata
FAMILY
Krameriaceae
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Read A Shrubby Sandbur, Krameria lanceolata from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Krameria lanceolata
FAMILY
Krameriaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Krameria lanceolata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 12 (2016)
Krameria lanceolata
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Krameria spathulata
COMMON NAME:
Trailing Ratany, Sandspur, Prairie-bur, Trailing Krameria
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_krla_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Krameria lanceolata
FAMILY
Krameriaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Krameria lanceolata
FAMILY
Krameriaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Krameria lanceolata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 12
Krameria lanceolata
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Krameria spathulata
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Subshrub; Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills (in GA and FL), westwards (in KS, OK, and TX) in rocky, sandy, or gravelly prairies, per Weakley's Flora
Native to Georgia
Common in GA Coastal Plain
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Margins entire
Leaves do not have stipules.
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Stoloniferous
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Sepals purplish; petaloid petals purplish-pink
Bilaterally symmetrical
(4)5 sepals
(4)5 petals (two modified into oil-secreting structures)
Superior ovary
Bisexual
Flowers in terminal, secund racemes
FRUIT:
Capsule
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