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. VA south to s. FL, west to TX (and e. Mexico?); disjunct in w. SC in the uppermost Piedmont in the Blue Ridge Escarpment region.
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Synonymy ⓘ: = C, F, FNA11.1, G, 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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Heliophily ⓘ: 9
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Horticultural Information
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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