Eriocaulon texense Körn.

In habit Eriocaulon texense is much like a diminutive version of E. compressum, likewise preferring deep bogs and also just as variable in the color of its bracts, bracteoles, and perianth.

Herbs, perennial, 5--30 cm. Leaves linear-attenuate, (1--)2--5(--7) cm, apex subulate. Inflorescences: scape sheaths mostly longer than principal leaves, inflated; scapes filiform to linear, 0.5--1 mm wide, 4--7-ribbed; mature heads white or gray, hemispheric to nearly globose, 5--10 mm wide, soft, much flattened when pressed; receptacle pilose; involucral bracts becoming reflexed, obscured by bracteoles and proximal flowers, straw-colored to gray, suborbiculate to broadly obovate, 1.5 mm, margins entire, apex rounded to apiculate, glabrous; inner bracts, receptacular bracteoles gray to dark gray, obovate to cuneate, 1.5 mm, apex obtuse to acute, blade densely ciliate, hairs white, club-shaped. Staminate flowers: sepals 2, proximally pale, distally dark gray, opaque, linear-spatulate, 1.5 mm, apex acute, distal adaxial surfaces, margins with white, club-shaped hairs; androphore club-shaped; petals 2, unequal, narrowly triangular, short, apically ciliate with white, club-shaped hairs; stamens 4; anthers black. Pistillate flowers: sepals 2, dark gray, narrowly oblong-obovate, curved, keeled, 1.5 mm, keels with white, club-shaped hairs; petals 2, yellow-white, linear to oblong or obovate, 1--1.5 mm, apex acute, blade ciliate with white, club-shaped hairs, adaxial surfaces pilose with mixture of translucent, tapering and white, club-shaped hairs; pistil 2-carpellate. Seeds brownish, ovoid or broadly ellipsoid, 0.6 mm, indistinctly alveolate, proximal ribs often with fine pale papillae.

Ala., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., Tex.

Flowering in spring.

Sphagnous bogs and low pine savanna, seeps; 0--150m.

Eriocaulon texense Korn. Linnaea 27: 594. L856
Plants monoecious; stems very short; leaves tufted, spreading, membranous, plane, 1.5-6.5 cm. long, 1-3 mm. wide at the middle, linear, subulate-acute, fenestrately 10 13nerved, obscurely puberulent or becoming glabrate; peduncles solitary or 2-4, 11.5 34.5 cm long, slender, 5or 6-costate, slightly twisted, glabrous; sheaths surpassing the leaves, 4-9 cm. long; heads dense-flowered, hemispheric or subglobose, 4-7 mm. in diameter, denselj white-villose at the summit, only slightly compressed in drying; involucral bractlets flavescent . rather rigid, ovate, acute, glabrous; receptacle long-pilose; receptacular bractlets hyaline below, brown toward apex, cuneate-oblong, about equaling the florets, rather rigid, acute or subacuminate, long-pilose toward apex; staminate florets: sepals 2, free, yellowish or brown, spatulate, navicular, obtuse, pilose and slightly thickened toward apex; petal-tube whitish, its lobes 2, small, slightly unequal, pilosulous, glanduliferous; anthers 4, black; pistillate florets: sepals 2, yellowish or brown, oblong, deeply concave, obtuse, densely long-pilose on the back toward apex, cucullate at apex; petals 2, whitish, rather thick, spatulate, obtuse, glanduliferous, pilose; style short; stigmas 2.
Type locality: Texas (T. Drummond 409). Distribution: In wet soil of moist pinelands, Texas.

Eriocaulon texense là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Eriocaulaceae. Loài này được Körn. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1856.