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Zornia

not marked as a favorite taxon Zornia bracteata Walter ex J.F. Gmelin. Common name: Viperina. Phenology: Jun-Aug; Jul-Oct. Habitat: Pine flatwoods, longleaf pine sandhills, pine rocklands, sandy roadsides, rarely disjunct inland in sandy soils. Distribution: Se. Virginia south to s. Florida, west to s. Texas (and ne. Mexico?); disjunct in w. South Carolina in the uppermost Piedmont in the Blue Ridge Escarpment.

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Origin/Endemic status: Native

Taxonomy Comments: Kelley (2024c) described variation in pubescence, and named a form (forma strigillosa J.M. Kelley) to accommodate plants with moderate to dense pubescence on most parts of the plant, and predominating in the Coastal Bend of Texas and also present in se. Alabama.

Synonymy ⓘ: = C, F, FNA11.1, G, K1, K4, NcTx, NS, POWO, RAB, S, S13, SE3, Tx, Va, WH3, Isely (1998). Basionym: Zornia bracteata Walter ex J.F.Gmel. 1791 [1792]

Links to other floras: = Zornia bracteata - FNA11.1

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Reclining, carpet-forming perennial of flatwoods, sandhills and sandy roadsides.

Stems: Stems mostly prostrate, much-branched, smooth.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, on long petioles with a pair of lobed stipules at the base, palmately divided into 4 lance-linear leaflets that are mostly smooth and spine-tipped.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in erect, terminal spikes of 3-10 flowers, each flower subtended and partially covered by a pair of striate, oval bracts. Flowers yellow, less than 1/2 in. long, bilaterally symmetric, with typical pea-flower shape, including a large, erect "banner" petal that is red-streaked.

Fruits: Fruit a bristly, jointed pod with a beaked tip.

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Height: 8-22 in. (long)

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description: Reclining, carpet-forming perennial of flatwoods, sandhills and sandy roadsides.

stems: Stems mostly prostrate, much-branched, smooth.

leaves: Leaves alternate, on long petioles with a pair of lobed stipules at the base, palmately divided into 4 lance-linear leaflets that are mostly smooth and spine-tipped.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in erect, terminal spikes of 3-10 flowers, each flower subtended and partially covered by a pair of striate, oval bracts. Flowers yellow, less than 1/2 in. long, bilaterally symmetric, with typical pea-flower shape, including a large, erect "banner" petal that is red-streaked.

fruits: Fruit a bristly, jointed pod with a beaked tip.

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