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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Seymeria cassioides
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read about Senna Seymeria from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Read more about Senna Seymeria at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Seymeria cassioides
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Seymeria cassioides
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17 (2019)
Seymeria cassioides
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-23-001:
Seymeria cassioides FAMILY Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Afzelia cassioides
COMMON NAME:
Senna Seymeria, Yaupon Black-senna
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_seymeria_cassoides
September
Leaves opposite, thread-like, 1-1.5cm long and less than 0.5mm wide, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).
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Will Stuart wil_8442010888_baa26401c1
September Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_seymeria_cassioides
October
Flowers with 5 rounded lobes, two of which are partially united, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).
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Sharleen Johnson shj_1251013245477683
December Charleston County SC
Francis Marion National Forest
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Seymeria cassioides
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Seymeria cassioides
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Seymeria cassioides
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17
Seymeria cassioides
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-23-001:
Seymeria cassioides
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Afzelia cassioides
2550
Forb
Annual
Habitat: Dry to moist pinelands, wet pine savannas, longleaf pine sandhills, other dry woodlands, an obligate hemiparasite on Pinus spp, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple: Parted or divided into filiform segments less than 0.5mm wide
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Yellow
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed rotate corolla
4 exserted stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005) p170
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p231
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p310
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p234
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p275
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p069
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