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Florida bluehearts

Buchnera floridana

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mississippi.January 21, February 22, March 21, April 39, May 34, June 32, July 22, August 13, September 17, October 19, November 14, December 16.
United States3,935
Mississippi232
Texas211
Louisiana135
Alabama105
Georgia93
South Carolina84
Arkansas52
North Carolina34
Oklahoma5

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • ParasiteDescends from a lineage whose members commonly live parasitically on another organism.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderMints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies · Lamiales
Familybroomrape family · Orobanchaceae
Genusbluehearts · Buchnera

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Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Florida bluehearts with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.