Balduina uniflora

Balduina uniflora
Two Balduina uniflora flower heads, and one immature flower head.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Balduina
Species:
B. uniflora
Binomial name
Balduina uniflora
Synonyms[1]
  • Balduina lutea Raf.
  • Baldwinia uniflora Nutt.
  • Endorima modesta Raf.
  • Endorima uniflora (Nutt.) Raf.
  • Endorima uniflora (Nutt.) Barnhart

Balduina uniflora, commonly called oneflower honeycombhead,[2][3] savannah honeycombhead[4] or oneflower balduina,[5] is a North American species of plants in the sunflower family. It is native to the southeastern United States (Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina).[6] It is the type species of the genus Balduina.[7]

Balduina uniflora is a perennial herb with branching stems. Each plant has 1-4 flower heads, each with 8-22 yellow ray florets and 50-180 orange or yellow disc florets. The species grows in wet pinelands[4] and savannahs,[8] as well as wetland areas and on the edges of bogs[7][2] and tends to occur in wet drainage ditches and on roadsides.[4]

  1. ^ The Plant List, Balduina uniflora Nutt.
  2. ^ a b NRCS. "Balduina uniflora". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 28 May 2015.
  3. ^ "Plants of Louisiana". warcapps.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  4. ^ a b c "Balduina uniflora - Species Page - APA: Alabama Plant Atlas". floraofalabama.org. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  5. ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  6. ^ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  7. ^ a b Parker, Earl S.; Jones, Samuel B. (October 1975). "A Systematic Study of the Genus Balduina (Compositae, Heliantheae)". Brittonia. 27 (4): 355. doi:10.2307/2805514. ISSN 0007-196X. JSTOR 2805514. S2CID 29723871.
  8. ^ Flora of North America, Balduina uniflora Nuttall, Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 2: 175. 1818.