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Revision as of 13:22, 14 October 2015

Tetragonotheca helianthoides
Tetragonotheca helianthoides MS.jpg
Photo taken by Michelle M. Smith
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae ⁄ Compositae
Genus: Tetragonotheca
Species: T. helianthoides
Binomial name
Tetragonotheca helianthoides
L.
TETR HELI dist.jpg
Natural range of Tetragonotheca helianthoides from USDA NRCS Plants Database.

Common name: pineland nerveray

Taxonomic notes

Description

A description of Tetragonotheca helianthoides is provided in The Flora of North America.

Distribution

Ecology

Habitat

In the Coastal Plain in Florida, T. helianthoides has been found growing in the shade of a oak-hickory forest; loamy sand along the edge of a oak-pine-sassafras secondary woodland; loamy sand along wet pine flatwoods; scrub oak woods; mixed oak woodland; mixed deciduous flatwoods; longleaf pine slope above a Chamaecyparis thicket; scrub oak sandridge; burned longleaf pinewoods; sandy oak-pine forested uplands; loamy sand of pine-oak slopes above small seepage slopes; pine-turkey oak woods; and slash pine-scrub oak flats (FSU Herbarium; Heuberger et al. 2003). It has been observed to grow in disturbed habitats such as powerline corridors, the ecotone between mixed hardwoods and burned pine-oak woods, open fields, roadside ditches, and wet depressions.

Substrate types include sand, red sandy soil, gravel, and loamy sand (FSU Herbarium). Associated species include Myrica, Liquidambar, and Chamaecyparis (FSU Herbarium).

Phenology

It has been observed flowering and fruiting April through July (FSU Herbarium).

Seed dispersal

Seed bank and germination

Fire ecology

Arata noted that T. helianthoides appeared in late May/ early June after burning in mid-winter (1959).

Pollination

Use by animals

Diseases and parasites

Conservation and Management

Cultivation and restoration

Photo Gallery

References and notes

  • Arata, A. A. 1959. Effects of burning on vegetation and rodent populations in a longleaf pine-turkey oak association in north central Florida. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 22:94-104.
  • Heuberger, K. A. and F. E. Putz. 2003. Fire in the suburbs: ecological impacts of prescribed fire in small remnants of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) sandhill. Restoration Ecology 11:72-81.