Hexastylis sorriei L.L. Gaddy. Common name: Sandhill Heartleaf. Phenology: Mar-Apr. Habitat: Seepage bogs, pocosins, typically in association with Osmundastrum cinnamomeum, Sarracenia rubra, and Sphagnum spp. Distribution: Endemic to Sandhills region of NC and SC
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Taxonomy Comments: For additional information, see Gaddy (2011); plants of this species had previously been uncomfortably forced into either H. minor or H. virginica.
Synonymy ⓘ: = K3, K4, Gaddy (2011); = Asarum sorriei Sinn – Sinn (2015); < Hexastylis minor (Ashe) Blomq. – FNA3, RAB
Links to other floras: < Hexastylis minor - FNA3
Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW
Heliophily ⓘ: 6
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Low-growing, stemless, rhizomatous perennial of seepage bogs and pocosins, typically in association with Osmundastrum cinnamomeum, Sarracenia rubra and Sphagnum species.
Stems:
Leaves: Leaves (2-8) arising directly from the rhizome, petiolate, heart-shaped, variegated to not variegated.
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers solitary; 2-4 per plant; maroon-red but white to greenish-white at the base; less than 1 in. long; cylindric-tubular with 3 triangular, somewhat spreading lobes; thin-fleshy; longitudinally ridged and reticulated inside tube.
Fruits: Fruit a round, fleshy capsule.
Comments:
Height: 3-6 in.
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description: Low-growing, stemless, rhizomatous perennial of seepage bogs and pocosins, typically in association with Osmundastrum cinnamomeum, Sarracenia rubra and Sphagnum species.
stems:
leaves: Leaves (2-8) arising directly from the rhizome, petiolate, heart-shaped, variegated to not variegated.
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers solitary; 2-4 per plant; maroon-red but white to greenish-white at the base; less than 1 in. long; cylindric-tubular with 3 triangular, somewhat spreading lobes; thin-fleshy; longitudinally ridged and reticulated inside tube.
fruits: Fruit a round, fleshy capsule.
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