Syngonanthus flavidulus

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Syngonanthus flavidulus
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class: Liliopsida – Monocotyledons
Order: Eriocaulales
Family: Eriocaulaceae
Genus: Syngonanthus
Species: S. flavidulus
Binomial name
Syngonanthus flavidulus
(Michx.) Ruhl.
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Natural range of Syngonanthus flavidulus from USDA NRCS Plants Database.

Common name: yellow hatpins

Taxonomic notes

Description

A description of Syngonanthus flavidulus is provided in The Flora of North America.

Distribution

Ecology

Habitat

In the Coastal Plain in Florida, S. flavidulus can occur in pine-oak woodlands, wet pine flatwoods, margins of cypress wetlands, and sphagnous boggy clearings of pine flatwoods. It has also occurred in disturbed areas such as powerline transects through pine flatwoods and roadsides (FSU Herbarium). Xyris baldwiniana is an associated species (FSU Herbarium). It has been observed to grow on poorly drained soils and sandy loam (FSU Herbarium).

Phenology

Flowers in May (FSU Herbarium).

Seed dispersal

Seed bank and germination

Fire ecology

Pollination

The following Hymenoptera families and species were observed visiting flowers of Syngonanthus flavidulus at Archbold Biological Station (Deyrup 2015):

Colletidae: Colletes brimleyi, Colletes mandibularis, Hylaeus confluens

Halictidae: Agapostemon splendens, Augochlorella gratiosa, Augochloropsis sumptuosa, Halictus poeyi, Lasioglossum coreopsis, L. lepidii, L. nymphalis, L. puteulanum, L. tamiamensis, Sphecodes heraclei

Leucospididae: Leucospis robertsoni, L. slossonae

Megachilidae: Anthidiellum perplexum, Dianthidium floridiense, Hoplitis truncata, Megachile georgica

Pompilidae: Anoplius americanus trifasciatus, Anoplius marginalis, Aporinellus apicatus, Episyron conterminus posterus

Sphecidae: Ammophila pictipennis, Bicyrtes capnoptera, Cerceris blakei, C. compar, Ectemnius decemmaculatus tequesta, E. rufipes ais, Hoplisoides placidus placidus, Microbembex monodonta, Oxybelus decorosum, O. laetus fulvipes, Philanthus ventilabris, Prionyx thomae, Stictiella serrata, Tachysphex apicalis, T. similis

Vespidae: Leptochilus krombeini, L. republicanus, Pachodynerus erynnis, Parancistrocerus bicornis, P. fulvipes rufovestris, P. histrio, P. perennis anacardivora, P. salcularis rufulus, P. vagus slossoni, Pseudodynerus quadrisectus, Stenodynerus histrionalis rufustus, S. lineatifrons

Use by animals

Diseases and parasites

Conservation and Management

Cultivation and restoration

Photo Gallery

References and notes

Deyrup, M.A. and N.D. 2015. Database of observations of Hymenoptera visitations to flowers of plants on Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA.