herb
Sand barrens.
This plant had opposite to whorled leaves with blades averaging 4 mm long by 2 mm wide, on petioles 0.5 mm long. Leaf tips were acute to rounded. Mature leaves and stems were reddish-purple. Two unopened flowers are shown in the last photo below. They were just 0.2 mm across and appeared to be 3-merous under 30x magnification.
Tyler State Park
Gus Engeling WMA
Field of coordinates only
The GPS did not work for these six observations of this species, but I know the location of this site very well. It might as well have been GPSed. @boverser reported the yellow flowers of some plants of this species were tinged with red. The photos show more red in some plants than others, but most plants at the site seemed to have no red color at all. One observation was much like the also present species, E. pallida, but had a tinge of yellow and no real indication of having the blue flowers of that species. Rather than call this X var. neglecta, I prefer to call the ones with red in the flowers a form with yellow flowers tinged with varying amounts of red at the base, at least until someone can do further study such as comparative DNA analysis. Also, in the past I have estimated roughly 200-400 flowering stems at this site, mainly by looking along the road while driving. Today, I walked the road and estimated at least 1130 flowers were present with more coming on and a very few additional flowers perhaps unnoticed because a few flowers were past peak.
Flowers with a slight reddish/pinkish tinge at the base; flowers very pale yellow but with no trace of blue although bluish C. pallida also grow here.. The GPS did not work for these six observations of this species, but I know the location of this site very well. It might as well have been GPSed. @boverser reported the yellow flowers of some plants of this species were tinged with red. The photos show more red in some plants than others, but most plants at the site seemed to have no red color at all. One observation was much like the also present species, E. pallida, but had a tinge of yellow and no real indication of having the blue flowers of that species. Rather than call this X var. neglecta, I prefer to call the ones with red in the flowers a form with yellow flowers tinged with varying amounts of red at the base, at least until someone can do further study such as comparative DNA analysis. Also, in the past I have estimated roughly 200-400 flowering stems at this site, mainly by looking along the road while driving. Today, I walked the road and estimated at least 1130 flowers were present with more coming on and a very few additional flowers perhaps unnoticed because a few flowers were past peak.
Flowers with a slight reddish/pinkish tinge at the base. The GPS did not work for these six observations of this species, but I know the location of this site very well. It might as well have been GPSed. @boverser reported the yellow flowers of some plants of this species were tinged with red. The photos show more red in some plants than others, but most plants at the site seemed to have no red color at all. One observation was much like the also present species, E. pallida, but had a tinge of yellow and no real indication of having the blue flowers of that species. Rather than call this X var. neglecta, I prefer to call the ones with red in the flowers a form with yellow flowers tinged with varying amounts of red at the base, at least until someone can do further study such as comparative DNA analysis. Also, in the past I have estimated roughly 200-400 flowering stems at this site, mainly by looking along the road while driving. Today, I walked the road and estimated at least 1130 flowers were present with more coming on and a very few additional flowers perhaps unnoticed because a few flowers were past peak.
Flowers with a slight reddish/pinkish tinge at the base. The GPS did not work for these six observations of this species, but I know the location of this site very well. It might as well have been GPSed. @boverser reported the yellow flowers of some plants of this species were tinged with red. The photos show more red in some plants than others, but most plants at the site seemed to have no red color at all. One observation was much like the also present species, E. pallida, but had a tinge of yellow and no real indication of having the blue flowers of that species. Rather than call this X var. neglecta, I prefer to call the ones with red in the flowers a form with yellow flowers tinged with varying amounts of red at the base, at least until someone can do further study such as comparative DNA analysis. Also, in the past I have estimated roughly 200-400 flowering stems at this site, mainly by looking along the road while driving. Today, I walked the road and estimated at least 1130 flowers were present with more coming on and a very few additional flowers perhaps unnoticed because a few flowers were past peak.