Appalachian State University, I. W. Carpenter, Jr. Herbarium (BOON)
011148
17253687-0553-41ff-9c60-517322fd971c
Amsonia ciliata var. ciliata Walter
Apocynaceae
Albert B. Pittman
04220903
2009-04-22
22 April 2009
Kathy A. Boyle, Herrick H. K. Brown
United States, South Carolina, Aiken, Approximately 200 meters NW of the southernmost point of Bear Branch Heritage Preserve; 426189E, 3725962N; elev. 446'.
33.668411 -81.796844 +-794m. WGS84
446-446 meters (1463-1463ft)
Infrequent clumps standing approximately 0.5m. Beautiful sky-blue corollas; vestiges of last season's dehisced follicles somewhat spathuliform. Typical fire-suppressed xeric sandhill community characterized by mixed scrub oaks and Vaccinium arboreum with a dominant Pinus taeda overstory. Elev. 446'.