Piriqueta caroliniana

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Species Distribution Map
Family:PASSIFLORACEAE
Species:Piriqueta caroliniana (Walter) Urb.
Common Name:Pitted Stripeseed
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Growth Habit:Herb
Duration:Perennial
Category:Vascular
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Plant Notes:Pitted Stripeseed is a native perennial herb in the Passion-Flower family (Passifloraceae). It can be found in southeast Alabama. Pitted Stripeseed occurs on roadsides, in scrub oak forests, and in sandhills, usually on very dry and sandy soils. It is a perennial forming extensive colonies from rhizomes. The stems are erect to reclining, often forming intertwined mounds, and pubescent with stellate trichomes. The stems are green in color and range in length from 1-2 feet. Leaves are alternate, petiolate, linear to elliptic in outline, glabrous or pubescent, with entire or toothed margins. The bright yellow flowers are produced from the leaf axils. They have 5 petals, 5 stamens, and 3 stigmas. The flowers of Pitted Stripeseed are distylous and self-incompatible. The fruit is an ovoid 3-valved capsule that explodes when ripe, scattering the seed. The seed are long and narrow, with longitudinally striped depressions. Pitted Stripeseed is sometimes available from native plant nurseries. It prefers a site in full sun with sandy, well-draining soil. It can be used as a ground cover in open areas, or to line paths and borders. Pitted Stripeseed is a larval host plant for the Gulf fritillary butterfly (Agraulis vanilla).—A. Diamond.
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Status:Native
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Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

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Classification

FamilyPASSIFLORACEAE - Passion-Flower family
Genus Piriqueta
Species Piriqueta caroliniana (Walter) Urb. - Pitted Stripeseed

Citation

Citation Piriqueta caroliniana (Walter) Urban, Jahrb. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 2: 71. 1883.
Basionym: Waltheria caroliniana Walter 1788.
Type: USA: SOUTH CAROLINA: Hampton Co.: SC 20, 2.7 mi. S of its junction with SC 39, 9 Sep 1956, Ahles 18262 (neotype: GH; isoneotype: NCU). Neotypified by D. B. Ward, J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 2: 485. 2008.

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Synonyms

SynonymFull CitationBasionymType
Piriqueta cistoides subsp. caroliniana Piriqueta cistoides subsp. caroliniana (Walter) Arbo, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 77(2): 351. 1990.  
Turnera caroliniana Turnera caroliniana (Walter) S. Watson, Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 258: 391. 1878.  
Waltheria caroliniana Waltheria caroliniana Walter, Fl. Carol. 175. 1788.  SOUTH CAROLINA: Hampton Co.: SC 20, 2.7 mi. S of its junction with SC 39, 9 Sep 1956, Ahles 18262 (neotype: GH; isoneotype: NCU). Neotypified by D. B. Ward, J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 2: 485. 2008.

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Houston, Pike

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, AUA, JSU, TROY, UNA, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: 1997 - 1997

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
AUA_ACC_57545 Houston 21 Jul 1991 Macdonald, John R.
2911		 AUA
Piriqueta Cistoides (L.) Griseb. Ssp. Caroliniana (Walt.) Arbo
JSU135890 Houston 21 Jul 1991 MacDonald, John R.
2911		 JSU
Piriqueta caroliniana (Walter) Urban
UWAL0004295 Pike 16 Aug 2008 Diamond, Alvin R.
19777		 UWAL
Piriqueta caroliniana (Walter) Urb.
TROY000024377 Pike 16 Aug 2008 Diamond, Alvin R.
19777		 TROY
Piriqueta caroliniana (Walter) Urban
UWAL0019707 Houston 21 Aug 1977 Kral, Robert
60848.2		 UWAL
Piriqueta caroliniana (Walt.) Urb.
UNA00048926 Houston 17 May 1997 MacDonald, John R.
10555		 UNA
Piriqueta caroliniana (Walt.) Urban
ALNHS00004096 Houston 20 Jul 2016 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#2403		 ALNHS
Piriqueta caroliniana (Walter) Urban
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