About Eryngium baldwinii Spreng.
Eryngium baldwinii Spreng. grows as a spreading groundcover, and produces hazy-looking flowers that range from dark to light blue. Individual flowers measure roughly 8 millimeters long and 4 millimeters wide. The leaves of this species can come in a range of shapes including oblong, ovate, and lanceolate, and can be entire, cleft, dentate, or pinnatifid in edge or division form. Mature leaves are typically around 2.5 centimeters wide and 7 centimeters long. This plant is distributed across most of Florida, plus portions of Alabama and Georgia. It favors full sun exposure and moist to wet soil, and has been recorded growing in fresh to brackish marshes, bogs, and wet pine flatwoods.
