American Chaffseed - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
American chaffseed, Schwalbea americana L., is a federally endangered hemiparasitic herb that requires a high fire-return interval, or fire surrogate to persist across the landscape. Due to extirpation of the species from 10 states, or more than half of its range, and a decline in known occurrences, American chaffseed was listed as an ...
Schwalbea - Wikipedia
Schwalbea americana, commonly known as American chaffseed, is the sole species currently classified in the genus Schwalbea. It is an erect, hemiparasitic, perennial herb in the family Orobanchaceae. It is native to the southeastern United States …
Schwalbea americana , American chaffseed - US Forest Service
Schwalbea americana, American chaffseed ESA Status. Visit the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Species Profile link below for links to listing and other USFWS documents. Listed Endangered 1992; Recovery Plan 1995 (PDF, 5.3 MB) Threats
Saving a rare and ‘picky’ wildflower - New Jersey Conservation ...
2020年8月27日 · One of the rarest wildflowers in New Jersey – and the entire northeastern United States – is American chaffseed (Schwalbea americana), a perennial in the snapdragon family. Twenty years ago, the future was dim for this native flower with reddish-purple blooms – and it’s been listed as a federally endangered species since 1992.
Schwalbea americana L. (American chaffseed) is a hemiparasitic, herbaceous perennial plant species in the Broomrape Family (Orobanchaceae) that occupies coastal plain forests and other isolated areas in Eastern North America.
American Chaffseed - Encyclopedia.com
1992年9月29日 · The American chaffseed inhabits open pine flat-woods, savannahs, and other open areas, in moist to dry acidic sandy loams or sandy pest loams in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, and South Carolina. This species is associated with areas described as open, moist pine flat-woods, fire-maintained savannahs, ecotonal areas ...
American chaffseed (Schalbea americana L.) is a monotypic perennial member of the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae, in the tribe Euphrasieae. The species was described by Linnaeus in Species Plantarum in 1753, and named for Christian …
Species reviewed: American chaffseed (Schwalbea americana) TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. GENERAL INFORMATION.....3 . A. Methodology .....3
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American Chaffseed
GENERAL DESCRIPTION: American Chaffseed (Schwalbea americana) is an herbaceous perennial typically 12 to 18 inches tall (30-46 cm) with alternate, yellow-green, untoothed, fuzzy leaves that grow between one and two inches in length (2.5 to 5 cm). The plant will bloom in early July with loosely clustered 10-12 flowers toward the top of the stem.
American chaffseed occurs in fire-maintained longleaf pine flatwoods and savannas. Often it is found in ecotonal areas between peaty wetlands and xeric sandy soils. Kral (1983) described Ameri-can chaffseed habitat as open grass-sedge systems in moist acidic sandy loams or sandy peat loams. Chaffseed is dependent