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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Salicornia bigelovii
FAMILY
Chenopodiaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Dwarf Glasswort at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Salicornia bigelovii
FAMILY
Chenopodiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Salicornia bigelovii
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 4 (2003)
Salicornia bigelovii
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Salicornia bigelovii
SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Salicornia bigelovii
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 064-05-001:
Salicornia bigelovii FAMILY Chenopodiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Salicornia bigelovii
COMMON NAME:
Dwarf Glasswort, Dwarf Saltwort
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_sabi_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Salicornia bigelovii
FAMILY
Chenopodiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Salicornia bigelovii
FAMILY
Chenopodiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Salicornia bigelovii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 4
Salicornia bigelovii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Salicornia bigelovii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Salicornia bigelovii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 064-05-001:
Salicornia bigelovii
FAMILY
Chenopodiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Salicornia bigelovii
4717
Forb
Annual
Habitat: Salt pannes in coastal marshes, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain
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Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
LEAVES:
Simple - scale-like, small, connate
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Green
3 persistent sepals (usually)
Petals absent
1-2 stamens
Bisexual
Flowers in branched, erect, terminal spikes
FRUIT:
Utricle
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p471
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p027
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