NameThatPlant.net: Eryngium integrifolium

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Apiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Eryngium integrifolium FAMILY Apiaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Savanna Eryngo at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eryngium integrifolium FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-04-005:

Eryngium integrifolium FAMILY Apiaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Eryngium integrifolium

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Eryngium ludovicianum

COMMON NAME:
Savanna Eryngo, Blueflower Eryngo

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image of Eryngium integrifolium, Savanna Eryngo, Blueflower Eryngo

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August

Flowers bluish in 0.25" roundish heads, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Eryngium integrifolium FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eryngium integrifolium FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-04-005:
Eryngium integrifolium FAMILY Apiaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Eryngium integrifolium

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Eryngium ludovicianum

1968

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: pine savannas, pine flatwoods, seepages, swamps, wet meadows, other moist, nutrient-poor places, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Leaf margins weakly dentate-spinose

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate (reduced upward)
Margins crenate or serrate, rarely entire

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Blue
5-merous
Inferior ovary

Flowers in compact heads

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of two mericarps

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