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Stylisma humistrata
Southern dawnflower is a low, sprawling perennial in the morning-glory family, native to sandy and dry sites in the southeastern US. It is a wild native rather than a common garden plant, so it is grown mainly in native plant or restoration gardens where its sandy, well-drained habitat can be copied.
Stylisma humistrata, also referred to as southern dawnflower, is a species of perennial forb found in North America.
Within the United States S. humistra is primarily found within the southeastern region, its range stretching from Virginia south to Florida and westward to Texas.
Showy dawnflower · Coastal plain dawnflower · Pickering's dawnflower · Dawnflower
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Stylisma humistrata 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.
