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Seymeria pectinata
Also called Piedmont Black Senna, Combleaf Blacksenna
Piedmont blacksenna is a small annual herb native to the southeastern U.S. coastal plain that grows as a partial parasite on the roots of pines. It is best left to its native pine habitats rather than grown in gardens.
Seymeria pectinata, commonly called combleaf blacksenna, comb seymeria, or piedmont blacksenna, is a species of annual herb endemic to several states of the U.S. southeast coastal plain. It was also historically found in Louisiana. It, like most other members of Orobanchaceae is a hemiparasite, specifically of pines.
It occurs in sandy, fire-dependent pine habitats of the southeast including flatwoods, longleaf pine sandhill, pine barrens, and scrubby flatwoods.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Seymeria pectinata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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.
