OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Apiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Eryngium prostratum   FAMILY Apiaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eryngium prostratum   FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-04-001:

Eryngium prostratum   FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Eryngium prostratum

 

COMMON NAME:
Spreading Eryngo, Creeping Eryngo


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image of Eryngium prostratum, Spreading Eryngo, Creeping Eryngo

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_erpr5_001_lvd

        

image of Eryngium prostratum, Spreading Eryngo, Creeping Eryngo

JK Marlow    jkm140604_030

June    Greenville County    SC

Furman University

Bracts linear, usually 1x+ long as heads, often strongly reflexed at maturity, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Eryngium prostratum, Spreading Eryngo, Creeping Eryngo

JK Marlow    jkm140604_032

June    Greenville County    SC

Furman University

image of Eryngium prostratum, Spreading Eryngo, Creeping Eryngo

JK Marlow    jkm140604_451

June    Greenville County    SC

Furman University

A creeping species whose leaves are very irregularly toothed or lobed, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Eryngium prostratum, Spreading Eryngo, Creeping Eryngo

JK Marlow    jkm140611_724

June    Greenville County    SC

Furman University

image of Eryngium prostratum, Spreading Eryngo, Creeping Eryngo

JK Marlow    jkm140612_789

June    Greenville County    SC

Furman University

image of Eryngium prostratum, Spreading Eryngo, Creeping Eryngo

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmeprostratum_wadakoeb

June    Pickens County    SC

Jocassee Gorges

image of Eryngium prostratum, Spreading Eryngo, Creeping Eryngo

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_e_prostratum_15

July        

Flower heads pale to dark blue, cylindric, solitary from leaf axils, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Eryngium prostratum, Spreading Eryngo, Creeping Eryngo

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_eryngium_prostratum

July        

Bracts subtending the head extending conspicuously beyond its base, per Weakley's Flora (2012).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Eryngium prostratum   FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eryngium prostratum   FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-04-001:
Eryngium prostratum   FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Eryngium prostratum

 

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1981

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: floodplain forests, bogs, pond margins, moist ditches and lawns, other moist, open habitats; definitely native southward, perhaps only rather recently spread to the northern parts of our area, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia? definitely native southward

Uncommon (rare in Mountains)

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Leaves not armed

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate (reduced upward)
Margins entire or irregularly toothed

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Bluish
5-merous
Inferior ovary

Flowers in compact heads, the heads solitary on peduncles from leaf axils

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of two mericarps

 

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