Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sclerolepis uniflora
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
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Read more about Sclerolepis at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sclerolepis uniflora
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Sclerolepis uniflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Sclerolepis uniflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-29-001:
Sclerolepis uniflora FAMILY Asteraceae__
COMMON NAME:
Sclerolepis, Pink bogbutton
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_scun3_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sclerolepis uniflora
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sclerolepis uniflora
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Sclerolepis uniflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Sclerolepis uniflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-29-001:
Sclerolepis uniflora
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
2346
Submersed aquatic (rooted) or shoreline terrestrial; Forb
Perennial
Habitat: In shallow water (later sometimes stranded on shore by dropping water levels) of clay-based Carolina bays, natural lake shores, blackwater stream shores and swamps, in seepage wetlands including sea-level fens, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon in Coastal Plain
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LEAVES:
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Disc: Pink or lavender
rarely white
Rays: Absent
Inferior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Black
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p340
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p399
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p390
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p305
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