Eryngium integrifolium
Common Names: blueflower eryngo[1]; savanna eryngo
| Eryngium integrifolium | |
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| 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. | |
Contents
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
Generally, E. integrifolium can be found in pine flatwoods, savannas, seepages, and other moist and nutrient-poor areas.[2] 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] It is also listed by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service as a facultative wetland species, where it most often occurs in wetland habitats, but can also occasionally be found in non-wetland habitats.[1]
Phenology
E. intregrifolium generally flowers from August until October.[2] It has been observed flowering between July and September. [4]
Pollination
This species is considered to be of special value to native bees since it attracts large numbers of native bees to pollinate.[5]
Conservation and Management
This species is listed as endangered by the Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission.[1] It is also considered critically imperiled in the states of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Oklahoma, and is considered imperiled in Arkansas.[6]
Cultivation and restoration
Photo Gallery
References and notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 USDA Plant Database
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Weakley, A. S. (2015). Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Herbarium.
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ 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
- ↑ [[1]] Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Accessed: May 10, 2019
- ↑ [[2]] NatureServe Explorer. Accessed: May 10, 2019
