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Eriocaulon nigrobracteatum
Also called Dark-headed hatpins
Blackbract pipewort is a small perennial wetland herb from the Florida Panhandle, forming tufts of narrow leaves with white-topped, dark-bracted flower heads. It is not a garden or houseplant and needs constantly wet, acidic, nutrient-poor soil to survive.
Eriocaulon nigrobracteatum, commonly known as the black-bract pipewort or dark-headed hatpins, is a species of flowering plant in the pipewort family Eriocaulaceae. It is endemic to the Florida Panhandle in the southeastern United States and is associated with wetland seepage habitats.
Eriocaulon nigrobracteatum is endemic to the Florida Panhandle, where it occurs in seepage meadows, mucky bogs, and poor fen habitats with saturated soils and sparse herbaceous cover in Bay, Calhoun, and Gulf counties. It is part of wetland plant communities characteristic of Coastal Plain seepage bogs. Seepage meadow vegetation containing this species is classified in the U.S. National Vegetation Classification system.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
