Kickxia elatine (L.) Dumort.

• Region

  North America

• Country

  United States of America

• State/Province

  Illinois

• County/Municipio

  Fayette Co.

• Locality

  at junction of Sect. 24 & Sect. 26 West side of Route I-57-south, about 1.5 miles northeast of Lick Creek.

• Elevation

  Alt. 181 m. (594 ft.)

• Coordinates

  37.3543, -89.0592

• Location Notes

  [US & Canada]

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

PLANTS OF ILLINOIS, USA
Kickxia elatine (L.) Dumort.
Scrophulariaceae
Det.: S. R. Hill, (ILLS) 2001
FAYETTE COUNTY 37° 32’ 15.5” N. Lat. 89° 3’
33.2” W. Long. T. 1 IS, R. IE, NW1/4 Sect. 25, at
junction of Sect. 24 & Sect. 26 West side of Route
I-57-south, about 1.5 miles northeast of Lick Creek.
Lick Creek 7.5 minute U.S.G.S. quadrangle.
Elevation 594 feet. Battery Rock Escarpment,
sandstone and shales with talus and thin sandy soil,
blasted for highway.
Disturbed sandstone barrens and cliffs, and roadside,
Acalypha spp., Croton spp., Juniperus virginiana,
Ulmus alata, non-native weeds. Occasional, local,
grey-green trailing annual herb from a taproot, stems to
1 meter long, flowers inconspicuous, cream-yellow with
reddish-purple markings; in periodically wet sandy
gravel of roadside drainage.
Steven R. Hill 34221
Jason A. Koontz
28 August 2001
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