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Syngonanthus flavidulus
Also called Bantam Buttons
Yellow hatpins is a small perennial pipewort from the southeastern United States, growing in wet flatwoods, prairies and pond margins. It is a wetland species that needs consistently moist to wet conditions and is rarely grown as a garden or houseplant.
Syngonanthus flavidulus, common name yellow hatpins, is a flowering plant. It grows in the southeastern United States including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. It is in the Syngonanthus genus and pipewort family Eriocaulaceae. A perennial, it grows to about a foot in height. It grows in flatwoods, prairies, and pond margins. It has very small flowers that bloom February to July and appear as small white buttons and it has shiny leaves. Eugen Otto Wilhelm Ruhland reclassified it from Eriocaulon to Syngonanthus in 1903.
Syngonanthus chrysanthus · Syngonanthus nitens · Syngonanthus peruvianus · Hatpins
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Syngonanthus flavidulus 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.
