Eustachys petraea

#194 They called me Eustachys petraea, also known as Chloris dusenii, and Chloris swartzii. I pay homage to the male botanists Dusen (I couldn’t find his records), and Olof Swartz. They first catalogued me in 1810.

Native to Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil South, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, Georgia, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mississippi, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Uruguay, and Windward Is..