Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Apiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Eryngium prostratum
FAMILY
Apiaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Spreading Eryngo at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eryngium prostratum
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-04-001:
Eryngium prostratum
FAMILY
Apiaceae
COMMON NAME:
Spreading Eryngo, Creeping Eryngo
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_erpr5_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm140604_030
June Greenville County SC
Furman University
Bracts linear, usually 1x+ long as heads, often strongly reflexed at maturity, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm140604_032
June Greenville County SC
Furman University
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JK Marlow jkm140604_451
June Greenville County SC
Furman University
A creeping species whose leaves are very irregularly toothed or lobed, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm140611_724
June Greenville County SC
Furman University
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JK Marlow jkm140612_789
June Greenville County SC
Furman University
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmeprostratum_wadakoeb
June Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_e_prostratum_15
July
Flower heads pale to dark blue, cylindric, solitary from leaf axils, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_eryngium_prostratum
July
Bracts subtending the head extending conspicuously beyond its base, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Eryngium prostratum
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eryngium prostratum
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-04-001:
Eryngium prostratum
FAMILY
Apiaceae
1981
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia? definitely native southward
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common (rare in Mountains)
Look for it in floodplain forests, bogs, pond margins, moist ditches and lawns, other moist, open habitats, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Moist
IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Leaves not armed
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate (reduced upward)
Margins entire or irregularly toothed
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Bluish
5-merous
Inferior ovary
Flowers in compact heads, the heads solitary on peduncles from leaf axils
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of two mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p037
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p440
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p177
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p213
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p113