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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Stylisma pickeringii var. pickeringii   FAMILY Convolvulaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stylisma pickeringii var. pickeringii   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

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

Stylisma pickeringii var. pickeringii

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-03-001:

Bonamia pickeringii   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Breweria pickeringii

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Stylisma pickeringii

 

COMMON NAME:
Pickering's Dawnflower


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image of Stylisma pickeringii var. pickeringii, Pickering's Dawnflower

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_s_pickeringii_pick6

June    Scotland County    NC

Leaves are linear and oriented vertically, to 5.5cm long x 3mm wide, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).

image of Stylisma pickeringii var. pickeringii, Pickering's Dawnflower

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_s_pickeringii_pick6b

June    Scotland County    NC

image of Stylisma pickeringii var. pickeringii, Pickering's Dawnflower

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_s_pickeringii_pick7

June    Scotland County    NC

Long skinny stems radiate like a huge pinwheel - nothing looks quite like it, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).

image of Stylisma pickeringii var. pickeringii, Pickering's Dawnflower

Alan S. Weakley    asw_10231869843905069

July    Hoke County    NC

image of Stylisma pickeringii var. pickeringii, Pickering's Dawnflower

Alan S. Weakley    asw_10231869844385081

July    Hoke County    NC

image of Stylisma pickeringii var. pickeringii, Pickering's Dawnflower

Alan S. Weakley    asw_10231869844665088

July    Hoke County    NC

One to three flowers grow on erect slender stalks from leaf axils, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Stylisma pickeringii var. pickeringii   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stylisma pickeringii var. pickeringii   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

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

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 158-03-001:
Bonamia pickeringii   FAMILY Convolvulaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Breweria pickeringii

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Stylisma pickeringii

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2560

Herbaceous vine
Perennial

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, usually in the driest, most barren, deep-sand areas, occasionally colonizing dry, disturbed areas in sandhills, such as sandy roadbanks, known from the Fall-line Sandhills, aeolian rims of Carolina bays, and sandhills on relict riverine dunes along Coastal Plain rivers, per Weakley's Flora

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

Rare

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DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Does not have milky sap

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White
5-merous or rarely 4-merous
5 sepals
5-lobed campanulate to funnelform corolla
Superior ovary

Flowers in axillary clusters

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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