Wildflowers: from the Georgia sand-hills

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    flower resembles lavender... leaves resemble lychnis.
    Inhabitant of the droughty bottomless white sand.
    Not sure how to search this one...
     

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    Daniel Mosquin Paragon of Plants UBC Botanical Garden Forums Administrator Forums Moderator 10 Years

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    Either Froelichia floridana or Froelichia gracilis. Height of plant would lean a decision one way or the other.

    Found it after browsing about 20 pages in A Field Guide to the Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (NC, SC, GA) -- very handy book. Which sandhills? Ohoopee?
     
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    thank you!
    Ima a fan of southeasternflora.com and I'm not sure why I didn't try there first...
    Field snake-cotton... Good one...

    Not the ohoopee... the fall line sandhills.
     
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    That's a great site -- I like how searching for white flowers matches on things that will atypically have white flowers, that's quite handy.

    Also, sounds like a intriguing locale.
     
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