Boerhavia coccinea Mill.

• Region

  North America

• Country

  United States of America

• State/Province

  Texas

• County/Municipio

  Cameron Co.

• Locality

  ca 300 ft. S of warehouse at Southmost Preserve, ca. 1.1 airmiles SE of jct. F.M. 1419 (Southmost Road) and F.M. 3068 (Indiana Ave.). Southmost Quadrangle

• Elevation

  Alt. 6 - 8 m. (20 - 26 ft.)

• Coordinates

  25.854, -97.3983

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

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FLORA OF TEXAS
The Nature Conservancy of Texas
Boerhavia coccinea Mill.
CAMERON CO.: stems branched at base, sprawling to form
loose mat; occasional in weedy herbaceous vegetation along
margin of strip of hackberry-palm woodland between ag
field road and old resaca bottom, on soils originally mapped
as deep, well drained, calcareous, moderately alkaline silt
loam Typic Ustifluvents (Rio Grande series), on +/- flat
agricultural landscape on delta of the Rio Grande, ca. 300 ft.
S of warehouse at Southmost Preserve, ca. 1.1 airmiles SE
of jet. F. M. 1419 (Southmost Road) and F. M. 3068
(Indiana Ave.), at N25°51’14.5”, W097°23’54.0”.
Southmost Quadrangle. Elev. 20-25 ft.
Associates included Calyptocarpus vialis, Clematis drummondii, Cynodon
dactylon, Gaura parviflora, Helianthus annuus, Heliotropium
angiospermum, Kallstroemia parviflora, Merremia dissecta, Physalis sp.,
Ratibida columnifera, Ruellia runyonii, Sida spinosa, Urochloa maxima.
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W. R. Carr
(with Max Pons)
#29888
19 July 2011
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