Hudsonia ericoides Linnaeus. Common name: Northern Golden-Heather, Pine Barren Heather. Phenology: May; Aug. Habitat: Sandy flats in longleaf pine sandhills (SC) or Coastal Plain pitch pine barrens (DE, NJ, NY). Distribution: NL (Newfoundland) south to ME, NH, MD (Sipple 2002), and DE; disjunct in nc. SC. The disjunct occurrence in SC has every appearance of being native; it is discussed by Bozeman & Logue (1968). A second population was found in 2021.
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Synonymy ⓘ: = C, Can, F, FNA6, G, K4, NE, NS, NY, POWO, RAB, S, S13, Tat, Morse (1979); = Hudsonia ericoides L. ssp. ericoides — Skog & Nickerson (1972). Basionym: Hudsonia ericoides L. 1767
Links to other floras: = Hudsonia ericoides - FNA6
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Heliophily ⓘ: 9
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