Carolina Environmental Diversity Explorations

The longleaf pine savanna · By Dirk Frankenberg

Carolina Sunflower

Figure 15. The Carolina sunflower. (Photograph by the author. More about the photograph)

Figure 15 shows yet another rare plant from this same ecotone habitat, the Carolina sunflower. Note the conspicuous yellow flower left of center in the upper portion of the photograph.

Definitions

ecotone n.
A transitional zone between two communities containing the characteristic species of each.