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Eryngium arenosum, commonly known as the sand eryngo or Sand Sheet eryngo, is a rare species of flowering plant in the carrot family, Apiaceae. It is an annual herb endemic to the South Texas Sand Sheet of southern Texas. It grows chiefly in dry sandy grasslands and along the margins of mesquite woodlands, often near seasonal wetlands.
NatureServe assigns Eryngium arenosum a global conservation rank of G2, or imperiled, as of 2019.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eryngium arenosum 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.
