Eryngium integrifolium

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Common Names: blueflower eryngo[1]; savanna eryngo

Eryngium integrifolium
Eryngium integrifolium AFP.jpg
Photo by the Atlas of Florida Plants Database
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida - Dicots
Order: Apiales
Family: Apiaceae
Genus: Eryngium
Species: E. integrifolium
Binomial name
Eryngium integrifolium
Walter
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Natural range of Eryngium integrifolium from USDA NRCS Plants Database.

Taxonomic Notes

Synonym: E. ludovicianum Morong

Description

E. intregrifolium is a perennial forb/herb of the Apiaceae family that is native to North America. [1]

Distribution

E. intregrifolium is found throughout the southeastern United States, as far west as Texas. [1] Within this distribution, it is distributed from southeast Virginia in Greensville county and eastern North Carolina, south to northeast Florida and the pandhandle, west to Texas and Oklahoma, and inland in central Tennessee.[2]

Ecology

Habitat

Common habitats that many specimens have been collected from include wet sandy loam of roadside ditchm, marshes, savanna pineland, pine flatwoods, loamy wet sands of wet flatwoods, and boggy wet depressions.[3]

Phenology

E. intregrifolium has been observed flowering between July and September. [4]

Conservation and Management

Cultivation and restoration

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References and notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 USDA Plant Database
  2. Weakley, A. S. (2015). Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Herbarium.
  3. URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: June 2018. Collectors: Loran Anderson, T.MacClendon, Ed Keppner, Lisa Keppner, R.K.Godfrey, Almut Jones, Bruce Hansen, A.H. Curtiss, S.W. Leonard, Dr. Horton Hobbs, R.F. Thorne, R.A. Davidson, R.A. Pursell, Robert Norris, Sidney McDaniel, Rodie White, A.Gholson, M. Jenkins. States and counties: Florida (Calhoun, Bay, Santa Rosa, Wakulla, Franklin, Escambia, Jackson, Leon, Calhoun, Jefferson, Walton, Liberty) Georgia (Thomas, Grady)
  4. Nelson, G. PanFlora: Plant data for the eastern United States with emphasis on the Southeastern Coastal Plains, Florida, and the Florida Panhandle. www.gilnelson.com/PanFlora/ Accessed: 21 MAY 2018