Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Boraginales? order assignment uncertain
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lithospermum caroliniense
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lithospermum caroliniense var. caroliniense
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Lithospermum caroliniense var. caroliniense
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-05-002:
Lithospermum caroliniense FAMILY Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Batschia caroliniensis
COMMON NAME:
Coastal Plain Puccoon, Hairy Puccoon, Sandhill Puccoon
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lithospermum caroliniense
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lithospermum caroliniense var. caroliniense
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Lithospermum caroliniense var. caroliniense
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-05-002:
Lithospermum caroliniense
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Batschia caroliniensis
2551
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, other dry sandy soils, per Weakley's Flora
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain
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LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly alternate
Margins entire
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellow-orange
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed funnelform corolla
5 stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual
Flowers in dense leafy cymes
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
White
Schizocarp of specialized mericarps (nutlets)
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p185
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p227
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p292
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p243
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p131
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p112
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