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Buchnera floridana
Also called Florida Bluehearts, Savannah Bluehearts, Florida Bluehearts, Florida Blueheats
Buchnera floridana, the Florida bluehearts, is a species of flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae. It is native to the southeastern USA, Texas, eastern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Panama, and most of the Caribbean islands. A hemiparasitic biennial, it is found mostly in wet areas such as open pinelands, flatwoods, and pitcher-plant bogs of the Gulf Coastal Plain.
B. floridana is mostly restricted to the coastal plain of the southeastern United States. Habitats include pine savannas, flatwoods, seepage bogs, and sandy roadsides
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Buchnera floridana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
