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]
Phenology
E. intregrifolium generally flowers from August until October.[2] It has been observed flowering between July and September. [4]
Conservation and Management
Cultivation and restoration
Photo Gallery
References and notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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
