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===Habitat=== <!--Natural communities, human disturbed habitats, topography, hydrology, soils, light, fire regime requirements for removal of competition, etc.--> | ===Habitat=== <!--Natural communities, human disturbed habitats, topography, hydrology, soils, light, fire regime requirements for removal of competition, etc.--> | ||
| − | In the Coastal Plain in Florida and Georgia, ''P. flexuosum'' can be found low pinelands near pond edges, | + | In the Coastal Plain in Florida and Georgia, ''P. flexuosum'' can be found in low pinelands near pond edges, swales bordering cypress-gum swamps, open annually burned pine stands, flat areas in longleaf pine forests, well drained slopes, and in flats between the hills of longleaf pine forests (FSU Herbarium). It can also be found in drying loamy sand of grassy roadsides, floodplain clearings along rivers, open marshy areas, boggy area, fields, and a swale in a burned and cutover upland longleaf pine savanna. |
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===Phenology=== <!--Timing off flowering, fruiting, seed dispersal, and environmental triggers. Cite PanFlora website if appropriate: http://www.gilnelson.com/PanFlora/ --> | ===Phenology=== <!--Timing off flowering, fruiting, seed dispersal, and environmental triggers. Cite PanFlora website if appropriate: http://www.gilnelson.com/PanFlora/ --> | ||
Blooming from June through September (Nelson 2006). | Blooming from June through September (Nelson 2006). | ||
Revision as of 13:22, 5 October 2015
| Pycnanthemum flexuosum | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants |
| Class: | Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Lamiaceae ⁄ Labiatae |
| Genus: | Pycnanthemum |
| Species: | P. flexuosum |
| Binomial name | |
| Pycnanthemum flexuosum (Walter) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. | |
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| Natural range of Pycnanthemum flexuosum from USDA NRCS Plants Database. | |
Common name: Appalachian mountainmint
Contents
Taxonomic notes
Description
Distribution
It is found in moist to wet pinelands, pocosin margins, savannas, and bogs (Nelson 2006).
Ecology
Habitat
In the Coastal Plain in Florida and Georgia, P. flexuosum can be found in low pinelands near pond edges, swales bordering cypress-gum swamps, open annually burned pine stands, flat areas in longleaf pine forests, well drained slopes, and in flats between the hills of longleaf pine forests (FSU Herbarium). It can also be found in drying loamy sand of grassy roadsides, floodplain clearings along rivers, open marshy areas, boggy area, fields, and a swale in a burned and cutover upland longleaf pine savanna.
Phenology
Blooming from June through September (Nelson 2006).
Seed dispersal
Seed bank and germination
Fire ecology
Pollination
Use by animals
Diseases and parasites
Conservation and Management
Cultivation and restoration
Photo Gallery
References and notes
Nelson, Gil. Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers: A Field Guide to the Wildflowers of the Coastal Regions of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Northeastern Florida. Guilford, CT: FalconGuide, 2006. 62. Print.
