Southern Bogbutton

Lachnocaulon beyrichianum Sporleder; Korn. Linnaea 27: 567
1856.
Stems abbreviated; leaves tufted, mostly olivaceous, very narrowly linear or linear-filiform, 1.5-5 cm. long, mostly less than 1 mm. wide at the middle, plane, gradually attenuate toward the rather obtuse apex, nervose-striatulate, varying from densely ciliate to nearly glabrous; peduncles aggregate, 3-22, mostly numerous, 3-20 cm. long, rather rigid, 3-sulcate, twisted, sparingly hairy with long soft erect hairs; sheaths 2-2.5 cm. long, obliquely split at apex, the mouth ciliate, the blade elongate, attenuate, sparsely pilose; heads globose, becoming somewhal elongate, 3-3.5 mm. in diameter, grayishvillose; involucral bractlets, fuscous, obovate-oblnn-. obtuse, comose-pilose toward apex; receptacle conspicuously pilose; receptacular bractlets fuscous, spatulate, narrowed from the middle to the base, rounded and comose-pilose or ciliate at apex; florets very short-pedicellate; staminate florets: sepals free, obovate, rather thick, fuscous, rounded-obtuse and comose-pilose at apex with conspicuously clavate hairs (not merely ciliate); anthers whitish, oblong; pistillate florets: longer than the receptacular hairs; sepals free, whitish, spatulate, rounded-obtuse and comose-pilose at apex with conspicuously clavate hairs; style slightly shorter than the ovary, its appendages 3, rather heavy, non-papillose, coherent at apex; stigmas 3, simple, very slender, slightly longer than the style-appendages; ovary 3-locular; seeds fuscous, ovate, slightly apiculate, not cancellate.
Type locality: Very abundant at the edges of a swamp near Ebenezer. Effingham County, Georgia (Beyrich).
Distribution: Sandy shores and springy places on the Coastal Plain of Georgia and Florida.