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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hudsonia tomentosa
FAMILY
Cistaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Woolly Beach-heather at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hudsonia tomentosa var. tomentosa
FAMILY
Cistaceae
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Hudsonia tomentosa var. intermedia
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Hudsonia tomentosa var. tomentosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Hudsonia tomentosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Variation and speciation in the genus Hudsonia (Skog & Nickerson, 1972)
Hudsonia ericoides ssp. tomentosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 129-01-001:
Hudsonia tomentosa FAMILY Cistaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hudsonia tomentosa
COMMON NAME:
Woolly Beach-heather
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Alan S. Weakley asw_695576415448852
January Dare County NC
Jockeys Ridge State Park
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_h_tomentosa_5599
May Currituck County NC
A densely hairy, short, matlike shrub, rarely over 3dm high, per Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004).
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_h_tomentosa_5605
May Currituck County NC
Flowers solitary, sessile at the ends of short spur shoots, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_h_tomentosa_5607
May Currituck County NC
Leaves about 2mm long, scalelike, appressed to twig, per Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hudsonia tomentosa
FAMILY
Cistaceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hudsonia tomentosa var. tomentosa
FAMILY
Cistaceae
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Hudsonia tomentosa var. intermedia
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Hudsonia tomentosa var. tomentosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Hudsonia tomentosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Variation and speciation in the genus Hudsonia (Skog & Nickerson, 1972)
Hudsonia ericoides ssp. tomentosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 129-01-001:
Hudsonia tomentosa
FAMILY
Cistaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hudsonia tomentosa
3073
Shrub; Subshrub
Perennial
Habitat: dunes, sand flats, blowouts (in DE, NC, VA), high elevation quartzitic sandstone outcrops (in WV), per Weakley's Flora
Native to North Carolina
Rare
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LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple - scale-like
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellow
5 persistent sepals
5 petals
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- How to Recognize Shrubs (Grimm, 1966) p200
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p268
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p154
- Woody Plants of the Southeastern US: A Winter Guide (Lance, 2004) p160
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