Hexastylis sorriei Gaddy
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- Family
- Aristolochiaceae
- Botanical Name
- Hexastylis sorriei Gaddy
- Common Name
- Sandhill Heartleaf
- Synonym(s)
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Not in Flora of Virginia; discovered after its publication
- Comments
- A recently described species (Gaddy, L.L. 2011. Phytoneuron 47: 1-5.). Collected in 2023 by J. Thompson from a frequently burned area at Fort Walker. Pickled flowers and pressed leaves along with photographs were sent to Gaddy who verified the identification. This species was formerly considered an endemic to the sandhills region of North Carolina and Southern Carolina. It and numerous other sandhills-adapted plants occur in the well-preserved and regularly burned deep sandy habitats at the fort.
- Habitat
- Open pine-oak savanna and acidic seepage swamp ecotones that are regularly burned with prescribed fire.
- Native Status
- Native
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