Eriocaulon cinereum R Brown (ERIOCA...

Eriocaulon cinereum R Brown (ERIOCAULACEAE)-McCormick County: Expos lakeshore of mixed sand and clay in succession Strom Thurmond Reservoir, South Carolina Army National Guard Training Site; road. 68 along highway 28 south of dried grape Branch. Eran S Kilpatrick with Shaun C Worley, sn 15 November 2001 (CLEMS) specimen identified at Patrick D. McMillan, 14 June 2002

Significance. The above collection set forths the first documentation of this adventive annual species for toward the south Carolina and the first collection east of Louisiana in the United States. The species ranges as a native in northern Australia and the southern Pacific. It has been previously reported from California and Louisiana in the continental United States (Kral 1966 Godfrey and Wooten 1979 Kartesz and Meacham 1999) This species has been taken from agricultural lands so as rice fields where it colonizes disturbed soil areas. Its appearance in southerly Carolina on exposed soils adjoining a reservoir with fluctuating hydrology is not unexpect Several other exotic species of tropical origin that are tolerant of the hydrological fluctuation of reservoirs have also been expanding their range into the piedmont reservoirs of our area similar as Eleocharis atropurpurea and Xyris Jupicai. This species may be actively expanding its range eastward and should be sought in similar habitats quite through the Southeastern United States.-ERAN s KILPATRICK, DEPARTMENT OF FOREST RESOURCES, 261 LEHOTSKY HALL, coachman's seat 340331, CLEMSON UNIVERSITY, CLEMSON, southern CAROLINA 29634-0331, and PATRICK D MCMILLAN, DEPArTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 132 lengthy HALL, Box 340326, CLEMSON UNIVERSITY, CLEMSON toward the south CAROLINA 29634-0326. email address: pmcmill@clemson.edu

LITERATURE CITED

GODFREY RK and JW WOOTBN 1979 Aquatic and wetland plants of the southeastern United States. The University of Georgia Pres Athens, Georgia.

KARTESZ, JT and C.A. MEACHAM. 1999 Synthesis of the North American flora, version 10 North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

KRAL, R 1966 Eriocaulaceae of continental North America north of Mexico. Sida 2:285-332

Received August 12 2002; Accepted October 9 2002

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