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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Krameria lanceolata   FAMILY Krameriaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Krameria lanceolata   FAMILY Krameriaceae

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

Krameria lanceolata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 12 (2016)

Krameria lanceolata

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Krameria spathulata

 

COMMON NAME:
Trailing Ratany, Sandspur, Prairie-bur, Trailing Krameria


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image of Krameria lanceolata, Trailing Ratany, Sandspur, Prairie-bur, Trailing Krameria

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_krla_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Krameria lanceolata   FAMILY Krameriaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Krameria lanceolata   FAMILY Krameriaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 12
Krameria lanceolata

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Krameria spathulata

 

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4223

Subshrub; Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills (in GA and FL), westwards (in KS, OK, and TX) in rocky, sandy, or gravelly prairies, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

Common in GA Coastal Plain

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Margins entire
Leaves do not have stipules.

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Stoloniferous

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Sepals purplish; petaloid petals purplish-pink
Bilaterally symmetrical
(4)5 sepals
(4)5 petals (two modified into oil-secreting structures)
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in terminal, secund racemes

FRUIT:
Capsule

 

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