NameThatPlant.net: Pyxidanthera barbulata var. brevifolia

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Pyxidanthera barbulata var. brevifolia FAMILY Diapensiaceae Go to FSUS key

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Read more about Sandhills Pyxie-moss at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

The taxonomic status of this entity has been controversial, with different authors considering it a species, a variety, or an ecotype not worthy of taxonomic status... Recent surveys of the genus in the Sandhills of NC have shown that it is ecologically distributed in a strongly bimodal manner, usually found either in very dry (hill-top) or moist (pocosin ecotones) situations... Varietal status seems warranted based on our current understanding. Read more in Weakley's Flora.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pyxidanthera brevifolia FAMILY Diapensiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 146-02-001b:

Pyxidanthera barbulata var. brevifolia FAMILY Diapensiaceae

COMMON NAME:
Sandhills Pyxie-moss, Wells' Pyxie-moss, Little Pyxie

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Pyxidanthera barbulata var. brevifolia FAMILY Diapensiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pyxidanthera brevifolia FAMILY Diapensiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 146-02-001b:
Pyxidanthera barbulata var. brevifolia FAMILY Diapensiaceae

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Subshrub
Perennial

Habitat: On xeric sandhills, generally over deep sand or sand-clay mixtures near the summits or on the upper slopes of sandhills, restricted to the Fall-line Sandhills region, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas

Rare (endemic to 6 counties of the Carolina Sandhills)

CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Winter/Spring
White
Radially symmetrical
5 sepals united only at base
5-lobed rotate corolla
5 stamens (no staminodes)

FRUIT:
Spring
Capsule

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