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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Buchnera floridana
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
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Read more about Florida Bluehearts at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Buchnera americana
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17 (2019)
Buchnera floridana
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Buchnera floridana
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Buchnera americana
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Buchnera longifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-21-002:
Buchnera floridana FAMILY Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Buchnera breviflora
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Buchnera elongata
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Buchnera floridana
COMMON NAME:
Savanna Bluehearts, Florida Bluehearts, Buchnera
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_buam_001_lvd
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Keith Bradley kab_b_floridana_08581
April Miami-Dade County FL
Camp Owaissa Bauer
Calyx tube 3.5-5mm, lobes 1mm or less. Corolla tube 8-10mm, lobes 4-5mm, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Keith Bradley kab_b_floridana_08589
April Miami-Dade County FL
Camp Owaissa Bauer
Flowers in a raceme, on stalks only 1mm long. Calyx with short white hairs, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).
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Keith Bradley kab_b_floridana_08608
April Miami-Dade County FL
Camp Owaissa Bauer
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JK Marlow jkm0505q_11
May Williamsburg County SC
Flowers tubular below, spreading at apex into 5 petals, borne in a spike, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmbfloridana_scotts1
May Williamsburg County SC
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_b_floridana_4
July
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_buchnera_floridana_6
July
Flower tubes usually less than 3/8" long (vs. longer in B. americana), per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmbfloridana_183
Month Unknown
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Buchnera floridana
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Buchnera americana
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17
Buchnera floridana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Buchnera floridana
INCLUDING & INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Buchnera americana
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Buchnera longifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-21-002:
Buchnera floridana
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Buchnera breviflora
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Buchnera elongata
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Buchnera floridana
1942
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: pine savannas, pine flatwoods, seepage bogs, calcareous prairies (Black Belt of MS and AL), sandy roadsides, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Blue-violet/ White
Weakly bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx with cylindrical tube
5-lobed subsalverform corolla
4 fertile included stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual
Inflorescence an open spike
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p066
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p345
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p409
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p178
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p092?
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p272
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p237
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p281?
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p160
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p209
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