OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sclerolepis uniflora   FAMILY Asteraceae__   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sclerolepis uniflora   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Sclerolepis uniflora

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Sclerolepis uniflora

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-29-001:

Sclerolepis uniflora   FAMILY Asteraceae__

 

COMMON NAME:
Sclerolepis, Pink bogbutton


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image of Sclerolepis uniflora, Sclerolepis, Pink bogbutton

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_scun3_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sclerolepis uniflora   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sclerolepis uniflora   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Sclerolepis uniflora

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Sclerolepis uniflora

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-29-001:
Sclerolepis uniflora   FAMILY Asteraceae__

 

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2346

Submersed aquatic (rooted) or shoreline terrestrial; Forb
Perennial

Habitat: In shallow water (later sometimes stranded on shore by dropping water levels) of clay-based Carolina bays, natural lake shores, blackwater stream shores and swamps, in seepage wetlands including sea-level fens, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in Coastal Plain

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LEAVES:

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Disc: Pink or lavender rarely white
Rays: Absent
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Black
Achene

 

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