Texas Wildbuds

Stylisma pickeringii var. pattersonii

(Patterson’s Dawnflower)

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Stylisma pickeringii var. pattersonii, Bastrop State Park, Bastrop Co. 5862

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Stylisma pickeringii var. pattersonii, Bastrop State Park, Bastrop Co. 5835

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Stylisma pickeringii var. pattersonii, Bastrop State Park, Bastrop Co. 5859

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Stylisma pickeringii var. pattersonii, Bastrop State Park, Bastrop Co. 5849

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Stylisma pickeringii var. pattersonii, Bastrop State Park, Bastrop Co. 5842

Scientific Name Stylisma pickeringii var. pattersonii USDA PLANTS Symbol STPIP2
Common Name Patterson's Dawnflower ITIS Taxonomic Serial No. 530590
Family Convolvulaceae (Morning Glory) SEINet
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Description Habitat: Sandy soils usually in the driest, most barren, deep-sand areas in pine woods, roadsides and disturbed areas.
Plant: Perennial with numerous wiry stems arching from a central point, then trailing radially away, forming a mound 3 to 6 ft. across; stems and shoots with pubescent hairs.
Leaves: Alternate, linear, 3/4 to 2-3/8 inch long, sessile or nearly so; surfaces smooth to moderately hairy.
Inflorescence: Solitary or loose clusters of 2 to 5 small flowers arising from leaf axils; each flower with a white funnel-shaped corolla 0.5 to 0.7-inch long with 5 shallow, ruffled lobes, 5 white stamens more or less protruding, 1 protruding style unequally divided toward the tip into 2 stigmas; 5 densely and finely hairy sepals about 0.2-inch long with acuminate tips; 2 leaf-like bracts at the base of the flower stalk.
Bloom Period: May to September.
References: "Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas" by Correll and Johnston, Missouri Plants, Flora of the Southeastern United States, Vascular Plants of Williamson County by A.C. Gibson and Flora of North America.		 BONAP Distribution Map

Map Color Key		 Texas Status:
Native
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