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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Malvales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hudsonia ericoides   FAMILY Cistaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hudsonia ericoides   FAMILY Cistaceae

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

Hudsonia ericoides

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Hudsonia ericoides

SYNONYMOUS WITH Variation and speciation in the genus Hudsonia (Skog & Nickerson, 1972)

Hudsonia ericoides ssp. ericoides

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 129-01-003:

Hudsonia ericoides   FAMILY Cistaceae

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

Hudsonia ericoides

 

COMMON NAME:
Northern Golden-heather


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image of Hudsonia ericoides, Northern Golden-heather

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_huer_001_lvd

        

image of Hudsonia ericoides, Northern Golden-heather

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_hudsonia_ericoides1

April    Chesterfield County    SC

Low, spreading, freely branched shrub, rarely more than 12-16" tall, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).

image of Hudsonia ericoides, Northern Golden-heather

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_hudsonia_ericoides2

April    Chesterfield County    SC

Leaves crowded, needlelike. Flowers solitary at spur shoot or branch ends, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hudsonia ericoides   FAMILY Cistaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hudsonia ericoides   FAMILY Cistaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Hudsonia ericoides

SYNONYMOUS WITH Variation and speciation in the genus Hudsonia (Skog & Nickerson, 1972)
Hudsonia ericoides ssp. ericoides

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 129-01-003:
Hudsonia ericoides   FAMILY Cistaceae

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

 

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2559

Shrub; Subshrub
Perennial

Habitat: Sandy flats in longleaf pine sandhills (SC) or Coastal Plain pitch pine barrens (DE, NJ, NY), per Weakley's Flora

Native to South Carolina

Rare

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LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple - needle-like
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
Yellow
5 persistent sepals
5 petals
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule

 

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