Lachnocaulon minus (Chapm.) Small

Small's Bogbuttons; Brown Bogbuttons

Herb

Perennial

Vascular

Brown Bogbuttons is a native annual or short-lived perennial herb in the Pipewort family (Eriocaulaceae). It is found in the southern most counties of Alabama. Brown Bogbuttons occurs in sandy or peaty soils around the upper margins of Karst ponds, small depressions ponds, and in seeps. It is a cespitose plant forming clumps of rosettes. Leaves are linear, entire, and sparsely ciliate. Flowers are produced in scapes which exceed the leaves. The scapes are ribbed and pubescent with upward pointing hairs. The heads are gray in color, becoming darker and brownish as they age. The heads are globose to cylindric in outline. Staminate and pistillate flowers are in the same head. The flowers have 3 club-shaped sepals and no petals. The fruit is a capsule. Brown Bogbuttons is listed as a S1 species in Alabama (typically 5 or fewer occurrences, very few remaining individuals, acres, or miles of stream, or some factor of its biology making it especially vulnerable in the state) and globally as a G3-4 species (G3 - Imperiled globally because of rarity (6 - 20 occurrences, or few remaining acres, or miles of stream) or very vulnerable to extinction throughout its range because of other factors. G4 - Imperiled globally because of rarity (6 - 20 occurrences, or few remaining acres, or miles of stream) or very vulnerable to extinction throughout its range because of other factors.--A. Diamond

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Native OBL (NWPL) S1 (State Rank) G3G4 (Global Rank)

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