The green links below add additional plants to the comparison table. Blue links lead to other Web sites.
enable glossary links

hairy dawnflower

Pickering's dawnflower, Pickering's morning-glory

Stems

procumbent or trailing, glabrous or hairy.

procumbent or trailing, sparsely hairy.

Leaf

blades narrowly oblong-lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, 30–70 × 10–20 mm, surfaces hairy.

blades linear, 25–70 × 0.1–3 mm, surfaces glabrous or sparsely hairy.

Inflorescences

3–7-flowered.

2–5-flowered or flowers solitary;

bracteoles 15–25 mm.

Flowers

sepals ovate-lanceolate, 7–11 × 3-5 mm, abaxial surface densely villous;

corolla white, 15–25 mm;

stamens: filaments glandular-villous near base.

sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 4–6 × 3–5 mm, abaxial surface fulvous or canescent;

corolla white, 10–18 mm;

stamens: filaments glabrous or proximally puberulent;

style branches usually connate (1/2–)5/6+ length, sometimes less.

Stylisma villosa

Stylisma pickeringii

Phenology Flowering Apr–Aug.
Habitat Sandy barrens.
Elevation 0–50 m. (0–200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
FL; GA; LA; MS; TX
[WildflowerSearch map]
[BONAP county map]
from USDA
se United States
[WildflowerSearch map]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Key
1. Sepal apices usually obtuse, rarely acuminate; style branches 2–3 mm, equal to subequal.
var. pickeringii
1. Sepal apices acute to subacute; style branches 1–1.5 mm, unequal.
var. pattersonii
Source FNA vol. 14. FNA vol. 14.
Parent taxa Convolvulaceae > Stylisma Convolvulaceae > Stylisma
Sibling taxa
S. abdita, S. aquatica, S. humistrata, S. patens, S. pickeringii
S. abdita, S. aquatica, S. humistrata, S. patens, S. villosa
Subordinate taxa
S. pickeringii var. pattersonii, S. pickeringii var. pickeringii
Synonyms Breweria villosa, Bonamia villosa Convolvulus pickeringii, Bonamia pickeringii, Breweria pickeringii
Name authority (Nash) House: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 34: 149. (1907) (Torrey ex M. A. Curtis) A. Gray: Manual ed. 2, 335. (1856)
Web links