Seymeria pectinata Pursh ssp. pectinata. Common name: Comb Seymeria, Combleaf Blacksenna. Phenology: Jul-Oct. Habitat: Dry pinelands, longleaf pine sandhills, dry to moist pine flatwoods. Distribution: Ssp. pectinata ranges from se. NC south to n. peninsular FL, west to s. MS, a Southeastern Coastal Plain endemic.
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Synonymy ⓘ: = FNA17, K4; = Afzelia pectinata (Pursh) Kuntze ssp. pectinata — S; = Seymeria pectinata Pursh ssp. typica Pennell — Pennell (1935); < Seymeria pectinata Pursh — Fl7, RAB, WH3. Basionym: Seymeria pectinata Pursh 1814 [1813]
Links to other floras: = Seymeria pectinata ssp. pectinata - FNA17
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Heliophily ⓘ: 8
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Erect annual of dry pinelands and sandhills.
Stems: Stems bushy branched and covered with long hairs.
Leaves: Leaves opposite, short-petiolate to sessile, to 3/4 in. long, pinnately divided into many lance-shaped segments, light green and sometimes tinged red.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers in leafy racemes terminating branches, pale yellow, about 1/3 in. wide, consisting of a short corolla tube with 5 spreading, longer but unequal, very hairy lobes, a bell-shaped-tubular calyx with 5 linear-oblong lobes and 4 protruding stamens with hairy filaments.
Fruits:
Comments: Parasitic on roots of pines.
Height: 1 1/2-2 ft.
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description: Erect annual of dry pinelands and sandhills.
stems: Stems bushy branched and covered with long hairs.
leaves: Leaves opposite, short-petiolate to sessile, to 3/4 in. long, pinnately divided into many lance-shaped segments, light green and sometimes tinged red.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers in leafy racemes terminating branches, pale yellow, about 1/3 in. wide, consisting of a short corolla tube with 5 spreading, longer but unequal, very hairy lobes, a bell-shaped-tubular calyx with 5 linear-oblong lobes and 4 protruding stamens with hairy filaments.
fruits:
comments: Parasitic on roots of pines.
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