OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.

Your search found 8 taxa in the family Eriocaulaceae, Pipewort family, as understood by Weakley's Flora.

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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Ravenel's Pipewort

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Eriocaulon ravenelii   FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Eriocaulon ravenelii   FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Eriocaulon ravenelii 036-01-001   FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae

 

Habitat: Calcareous wet pine flatwoods and prairies

Historically in SC, but not recently seen

Native to South Carolina

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Ten-angle Pipewort, Hat Pin, Hard Pipewort

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Eriocaulon decangulare var. decangulare   FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Eriocaulon decangulare var. decangulare   FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Eriocaulon decangulare 036-01-002   FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae

 

Habitat: Wet pine savannas and pine flatwoods, bogs, mafic fens and seeps, seasonally flooded ponds, seepage bogs and swamps, wind-tidal marshes, sea-level fens

Common in Coastal Plain (uncommon to rare elsewhere)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Flattened Pipewort, Soft-headed Pipewort, Hat Pin

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Eriocaulon compressum   FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Eriocaulon compressum   FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Eriocaulon compressum 036-01-003   FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae

 

Habitat: Ponds, lakes, other depressions, wetter places in pine flatwoods and pine savannas, acidic seeps, Atlantic white cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides) swamps

Common in Coastal Plain

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Texas Hatpins, Texas Pipewort

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Eriocaulon texense   FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Eriocaulon texense   FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae

 

Habitat: Sandhill seepage bogs, Altamaha Grit outcrops, seepage over the Catahoula in the West Gulf Coastal Plain, seepage over granite in the Blue Ridge Escarpment

Rare

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Yellow Hatpins, Bantam-buttons

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Syngonanthus flavidulus   FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Syngonanthus flavidulus   FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Syngonanthus flavidulus 036-02-001   FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae

 

Habitat: Pine savannas, pine flatwoods, borders of pineland ponds, and adjacent ditches

Uncommon

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Southern Bogbuttons

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Lachnocaulon beyrichianum   FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Lachnocaulon beyrichianum   FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Lachnocaulon beyrichianum 036-03-001   FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae

 

Habitat: Scrubby flatwoods, flatwoods, upper margins of Coastal Plain doline ponds (sometimes under scrub oaks)

Uncommon in NC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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Common Name: Brown Bogbutton

Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Lachnocaulon minus   FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Lachnocaulon minus   FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Lachnocaulon minus 036-03-002   FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae

 

Habitat: Upper margins of Coastal Plain doline ponds, other pineland situations, ditches through wet pine savannas, wet 'scrapes'

Uncommon in GA, rare in Carolinas

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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camera icon speaker icon Common Name: Common Bogbuttons, Savanna Bogbuttons, Whitehead Bogbutton

Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Lachnocaulon anceps   FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Lachnocaulon anceps   FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Lachnocaulon anceps 036-03-003   FAMILY: Eriocaulaceae

 

Habitat: Moist to dry sands, moist peats, in pinelands, sometimes locally abundant in open disturbed areas where competition has been removed

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

 


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