NameThatPlant.net: Krameria lanceolata

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Zygophyllales

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

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read A Shrubby Sandbur, Krameria lanceolata from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.

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

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

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p228

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