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Eryngium baldwinii
Eryngium baldwinii is a biennial aromatic herb in the Eryngium genus. Its common name is Baldwin's eryngo. It is named for William Baldwin. A ground cover it grows in the Southeastern United States.
Ethnobotanist Dan Austin reports that it was used as breath freshener with aphrodisiac qualities and in an edible form was known as "kissing comfits". It is in the family Apiaceae along with parsley, celery, and carrot. Several other species of Eryngium are related.
E. baldwinii grows in much of Florida, as well as parts of Alabama and Georgia. It prefers lots of sun and moist to wet soil. As such, it has been observed growing in habitat types such as fresh to brackish marshes, bogs, and wet pine flatwoods.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eryngium baldwinii 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.
