3115

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common

Look for it in coastal salt marshes, primarily in salt pannes, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple - scale-like, small, connate
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Bisexual
Petals absent
1-2 stamens

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Utricle

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p360?
• Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p093?

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Caryophyllales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Sarcocornia ambigua   FAMILY Chenopodiaceae

GREATER THAN & LESS THAN, APPARENTLY MISAPPLIED TO EAST COAST MATERIAL PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sarcocornia perennis   FAMILY Chenopodiaceae

(?) (MISAPPLIED) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 064-05-003:
Salicornia virginica   FAMILY Chenopodiaceae

GREATER THAN & LESS THAN, APPARENTLY MISAPPLIED TO EAST COAST MATERIAL Flora of North America
Sarcocornia pacifica

GREATER THAN & LESS THAN, APPARENTLY MISAPPLIED TO EAST COAST MATERIAL Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Sarcocornia perennis