Pycnothymus rigidus (W.Bartram ex Benth.) Small

The New York Botanical Garden
Herbarium, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
Plants of The United States of America
’	Lamiaceae
Piloblephis rigida (W. Bartram ex Benth.) Raf.
det. B. K. Holst (SEL), 2002
The United States of America. Florida, Sarasota County. Jelks
Preserve, ca. 1.7 kilometers (by air) south of US 75, 0.8 km (by
air) east of North River Road and west of the Mayakka River.
27° 5.589' N: 82° 20.081' W (coordinates from hand-held GPS;
accurate to within a radius of about 50 m)
Upland pine flatwoods with scattered Pinus elliottii and
Quercus virginiana, shrub layer dominated by Serenoa repens
with Quercus spp. (see Atha et al. 2499, 2500 and 2504),
Lyonia, Vaccinium spp. (including V. staminium (Atha et al.
2502) and V. corymbosum (Atha et al. 2501); moist area,
recently burned.
Suffrutescent; stems brittle and reclining on other vegetation,
foliage pleasantly scented; corolla blue.
Collected by: Daniel E. Atha & Bruce Holst and Ulyana
Munoz-Acuna 2498
06 April 2002
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