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|accepted_name=Buchnera floridana
|accepted_authority=Gandoger
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Soc. Bot. France
|place=66: 217. 1919
|year=1919
}}
|common_names=Florida bluehearts
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Buchnera breviflora
|authority=Pennell
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Orobanchaceae;Buchnera;Buchnera floridana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orobanchaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Buchnera]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Buchnera floridana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 504, 506, 508
|treatment_page=page 507
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">Biennials; blackening upon drying. <b>Stems</b> simple or branched distally, 2–8 dm, appressed-hirsute or spreading-hirsute proximally, appressed-hirsute or glabrous distally. <b>Leaves</b> much smaller distally; larger blade: major vein 1, minor veins (0–)2, narrowly oblanceolate, lanceolate, or broadly linear, 25–60 x 3–12 mm, margins entire or crenate, teeth 0.5–1.5 mm, apex obtuse or rounded, sometimes acute, surfaces glabrate or appressed-pilose. <b>Spikes</b>: bracts ovate-lanceolate, 1.5–4 mm. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.5–1 mm; bracteoles 1–2 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx 4.5–5.5 mm, tube obscurely 10-nerved, ascending- to appressed-hispid, hairs often pustular-based; corolla 10–16 mm, glabrate externally, lobes 2–5 mm; style included, 1–2 mm. <b>Capsules</b> blackish, ovoid, 4.5–6.5 mm, glabrate. <b>Seeds</b> 0.5–0.7 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Oct.
|habitat=Moist pine savannas, flatwoods, streamhead ecotones, seepage slopes, pitcher-plant bogs.
|elevation=0–150 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Mexico (Yucatán);West Indies (Bahamas;Cuba;Dominican Republic;Jamaica);Central America (Belize).
|discussion=<p><i>Buchnera floridana</i> is mostly restricted to the Coastal Plain, occurring primarily in fire-maintained, pine-graminoid ecosystems in strongly acidic soils. Collections also have been made from higher pH soils of chalk prairies in Alabama and Mississippi and from limestone substrates in Florida and Texas; in the Caribbean, it regularly occurs in limestone soils. The situation in Texas is unusual in that <i>B. floridana</i> occurs far inland as well as on the Coastal Plain; most Texas specimens of <i>Buchnera</i> belong to <i>B. floridana</i>; <i>B. americana</i> is known from counties along the Red River and in the pinelands of eastern Texas.</p><!--
--><p>Some specimens of <i>Buchnera floridana</i> from southern Florida and the Keys have slender leaves and reduced indument on the calyx, which are typical of <i>B. longifolia</i> Kunth (= <i>B. elongata</i> Swartz; both names have been applied to Florida plants) of the Caribbean, Central America, and South America; they lack the glabrous corollas, long calyces, and large inflorescence bracts of <i>B. longifolia</i>. The presence of one or more <i>B. longifolia</i> characteristics in southern Florida plants may be the result of past contact between the two species; there is no evidence that the two come into contact in Florida at present.</p>
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name=Buchnera floridana
|authority=Gandoger
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Buchnera breviflora
|basionyms=
|family=Orobanchaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Oct.
|habitat=Moist pine savannas, flatwoods, streamhead ecotones, seepage slopes, pitcher-plant bogs.
|elevation=0–150 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Mexico (Yucatán);West Indies (Bahamas;Cuba;Dominican Republic;Jamaica);Central America (Belize).
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Soc. Bot. France
|publication year=1919
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Buchnera
|species=Buchnera floridana
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