Seymeria pectinata, commonly called combleaf blacksenna, comb seymeria, or piedmont blacksenna, is a species of annual herb endemic to several states of the U.S. southeast coastal plain. It was also historically found in Louisiana. It, like most other members of Orobanchaceae is a hemiparasite, specifically of pines.
Description S. pectinata can grow up to 75 centimeters (approximately 2.6 feet) in height.Musselman, Lytton J.; Mann, William F., Jr. 1978. Root parasites of southern forests. U.S. Depepartment of Agriculture Forest Service General Technical Report SO-20, 76 p. The leaves are oppositely arranged, and are greater than 1 centimeter in length. When inflorescence occurs flowers are yellow in color.Radford, Albert E., Harry E. Ahles, and C. Ritchie Bell. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. 1964, 1968. The University of North Carolina Press. 956. Print.
Habitat It occurs in sandy, fire-dependent pine habitats of the southeast including flatwoods, longleaf pine sandhill, pine barrens, and scrubby flatwoods.
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