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Mar 15, 2014 12:58 PM CST
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Name: Lin Vosbury
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Growing in the butterfly garden at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge; photo was taken March 1, 2014.
There are two different plants growing in this area and I'm not sure which foliage the flower goes with. From a distance I thought the flower was Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) but if the leaves with the serrated margins go with the white flower it's not that one, and the bloom doesn't look quite right for Buttonbush either. Any suggestions?
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Mar 15, 2014 2:45 PM CST
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Melanthera nivea ?? for the white flower.
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Mar 15, 2014 4:20 PM CST
Name: Tiffany purpleinopp
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If it was a fall pic, I'd think Spermacoce. Are there some that bloom in spring?
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Mar 15, 2014 5:23 PM CST
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Name: Lin Vosbury
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Greene: Thank you, I do believe you nailed it! Snow Squarestem (Melanthera nivea) is a Florida native; it's found all over the state and is a definite match to both leaves and bloom of the plant with the white flower.

Tiffany: False Buttonweed (Spermacoce verticillata) is not native here but is found in many areas of Florida; it reportedly blooms year round but the leaves don't match for the plant in question with the white flower.

I hope to visit the NWR at a time when that other plant is in bloom to try and get an ID on it.
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Mar 15, 2014 5:27 PM CST
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Name: Lin Vosbury
Sebastian, Florida (Zone 10a)

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LOL, and I see I've already uploaded photo's to the database. This plant is growing here in our Botanical Gardens and I'd forgotten I'd taken pictures of it there. Rolling on the floor laughing Snow Squarestem (Melanthera nivea)
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Mar 15, 2014 7:30 PM CST
Name: greene
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Mar 16, 2014 8:35 AM CST
Name: Tiffany purpleinopp
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That's funny!! It really does catch your eye, doesn't it?

There are over 200 hundred Spermacoce species, I've only seen the one you mentioned. Sorry I wasn't clear that I wasn't suggesting any particular species, just a possible genus. I couldn't tell which leaves were attached to the flower either. No idea what the other species look like, when they bloom, or where they grow.
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Mar 16, 2014 12:40 PM CST
Name: greene
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I found a link (Hawthorn Hill) that gives Snow Squarestem (Melanthera nivea) the common name 'Salt and Pepper".
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