Sullivantia sullivantii (Torr. & Gray) Britt.
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- Family
- Saxifragaceae
- Botanical Name
- Sullivantia sullivantii (Torr. & Gray) Britt.
- Common Name
- Sullivantia, Sullivant's Coolwort
- Synonym(s)
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Sullivantia sullivantii (Torr. & Gray) Britt.
- Comments
- A remarkable disjunct occurrence discovered by Douglas W. Ogle and reported by him in "Rare vascular plants of the Clinch River gorge area of Russell County, Virginia", Castanea 54:105-110 (1989). This species has a scattered, relictual distribution, with population centers in s. Ohio, Missouri, and around the Illinois-Wisconsin-Iowa-Minnesota confluence; isolated populations occur in s. Indiana, e. Kentucky, ne. Tennessee, and sw. Virginia.
- Habitat
- Drip zones of seeping limestone cliffs. Rare, sw. mountains; only known from cliffs of the Clinch River in central Russell County.
- Native Status
- Native
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