Trailing Krameria

Krameria lanceolata Torrey, Ann. Lye. N. Y. 2: 168. 1827
Krameria secundiflora Berg, Bot. Zeit. 14: 752. 1856. Not DC. 1824.
Dimenops lanceolata Raf. Atl. Journ. 144. 1832.
Krameria Beyrichii Sporleder; Berg, loc. cit.. as synonym. 1856.
Krameria secundiflora angustifolia Chodat, Arch. Sci. Phys. IIL 24: 498, hyponym. 1890.
Krameria secundiflora intermedia Chodat, loc. cit., hyponym. 1890.
Krameria secundiflora lanceolata Chodat, loc. cit., hyponym. 1890.
Perennial by a woody root; branches herbaceous, radiately prostrate, or slightly ascending, strigose or canescent, 2-4 dm. long. Leaves linear, or the larger ones oblong, strigose or canescent, acute, or the lower obtuse, sessile, 8-20 mm. long; peduncles axillary, slender, about as long as the leaves, or shorter, the bracts similar to the leaves, borne near the base of the flower or below; sepals 5, purple, strigose, obtuse or acute, 8-13 mm. long; lower petals reniform-orbicular, about 3 mm. broad; upper petals united to about the middle or above it, their limbs reniform-orbicular, usually shorter than the claw; fruit globose, the body woolly, 6-7 mm. in diameter, the subulate, unbarbed spines 2-4 mm. long, sometimes roughened above.
Type locality: On the Canadian [Oklohoma].
Distribution: Kansas and Oklahoma to Arkansas, Texas and Arizona.

Krameria spathulata Small, sp. nov
Stem short, woody, the slender branches prostrate, herbaceous, pilose, 2^^ dm. long. Leaves sessile, strigose, 1-2 cm. long, the lower ones spatula te-oblanceolate, mostly obtuse, the others narrowly linear, sharply acute; peduncles filiform, mostly longer than the leaves, pilose, foliaceous-bracted above; sepals 5, oblong, acute, strigose, purple, 10-12 mm. long; lower petals subrhorabic, truncate, 2.5 mm. long; upper petals 7-8 mm. long, united to above the middle, their limbs dilaled; fruit globose, the body woolly, the subulate sphies about 3 mm. long, woolly, roughened but scarcely barbed.
Georgia and Florida. Type from pine-barrens near Eustis, Lake County, Florida, May 1 2, 1900, A. H. Curtiss 6612.

Krameria lanceolata, commonly called trailing krameria, is a flowering plant in the rhatany family (Krameriaceae). It is native to North America, where it is found in the southwestern and south-central United States, and the state states of Chihuahua and Coahuila in Mexico. It has populations disjunct eastward in the U.S. states of Florida and Georgia on the Coastal Plain. Its natural habitat is in sandy or rocky calcareous grasslands.

Krameria lanceolata is an herbaceous perennial that grows decumbent along the ground. It produces purple-red flowers in late spring through the summer.