Sisyrinchium miamiense

E. P. Bicknell

Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 26: 226. 1899.

Endemic
Synonyms: Sisyrinchium flagellum E. P. Bicknell Sisyrinchium recurvatum E. P. Bicknell
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 26. Treatment on page 364. Mentioned on page 355.

Herbs, perennial, brownish or bronze-olive when dry, to 4 dm, not glaucous; rhizomes slightly elongated. Stems branched, with 1 or 2 nodes, 1.3–2(–2.5) mm wide, glabrous, margins usually entire, similar in color and texture to stem body; first internode 9–30 cm, equaling or shorter than leaves; distalmost node with 1–3 branches. Leaf blades glabrous, bases not persistent in fibrous tufts. Inflorescences borne singly; spathes green to occasionally purplish, obviously wider than supporting branch, glabrous, keels usually entire; outer 12.5–23 mm, 2.3 mm shorter to 3.7 mm longer than inner, tapering evenly towards apex, margins basally connate 3.9–6.5 mm; inner with keel straight to evenly curved, hyaline margins 0.1–0.3 mm wide, apex acute or obtuse, ending at or to 1 mm proximal to aristate green apex. Flowers: tepals pale blue to deep bluish violet, bases yellow; outer tepals 8.3–12.8 mm, apex rounded to emarginate or truncate, aristate; filaments connate ± entirely, stipitate-glandular basally or glabrous; ovary similar in color to foliage. Capsules dark brown or nearly black, ± globose to obovoid, 3.7–4.5 mm; pedicel ascending to spreading. Seeds globose to obconic, lacking obvious depression, 1–1.2 mm, rugulose. 2n = 32.


Phenology: Flowering late winter–summer.
Habitat: Roadside ditches, hammocks, open woods
Elevation: 0–50 m

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... more about "Sisyrinchium miamiense"
Anita F. Cholewa +  and Douglass M. Henderson† +
E. P. Bicknell +
Ala. +, Fla. +, Ga. +  and Miss. +
0–50 m +
Roadside ditches, hammocks, open woods +
Flowering late winter–summer. +
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club +
Sisyrinchium flagellum +  and Sisyrinchium recurvatum +
Sisyrinchium miamiense +
Sisyrinchium +
species +