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Common Name:
Southern Maritime Marsh-elder
Flower heads pendent, each subtended by a foliaceous bract, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Common Name:
Seashore Elder, Dune Marsh-elder
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Common Name:
Sumpweed, Rough Marsh-elder
Racemes 3-16cm long. Heads pendant, each head subtended by a foliaceous bract, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Outcrop Ragweed, Glade Ragweed
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Common Name:
Giant Ragweed, Great Ragweed
Staminate heads 3-5mm broad, peduncles 2-7mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Annual Ragweed, Common Ragweed
Male flowers in spikelike clusters that terminate stem and upper branches, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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Common Name:
Savanna Indian Plantain
Flowers borne in numerous upright heads within a flat-topped inflorescence, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Common Name:
Pale Indian Plantain
Heads 5-flowered. Involucres cylindric, 7-9mm long, 3-5mm broad, bracts 5, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Great Indian Plantain
Heads 5-flowered. Involucres cylindric, 7-10mm long, 3-4mm broad, bracts 5, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Salmon Tasselflower, Cupid’s-shaving-brush
Corollas salmon or red-orange; involucre 1-2(-3)x as high as wide, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Common Groundsel
Heads lack ray flowers; outer bracts have black tips, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Rugel's Ragwort, Rugelia, Rugel's Indian Plantain
Flower heads nodding, to 0.4" across, with protruding bifurcate stigmas, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Fireweed, Pilewort
The whitish corollas are barely visible above the involucres, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Common Name:
Bachelor's Buttons, Cornflower
Marginal florets enlarged, bell-shaped, with sharply pointed segments, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Spotted Knapweed, Bushy Knapweed
Heads are discoid, but the large outer florets simulate ray flowers, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Common Name:
Blessed Thistle
Heads sessile, closely subtended & partially concealed by large foliar bracts, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Bull Thistle
Involucres 1.0"-1.5" tall, bracts all have distinct yellowish spines, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Common Yellow Thistle, Purple Thistle
Yellow Thistle is a robust plant w large purple heads frequently > 2" across, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Common Name:
Field Thistle
Uppermost leaves just below the head, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Tall Thistle
Involucres have the middle and outer bracts tipped with a spine, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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Common Name:
Virginia Thistle
Corollas purple, 21-26 mm, throats noticeably wider than tubes, per Flora of North America.
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Common Name:
Carolina Thistle, Spring Thistle, Soft Thistle
Corollas pink-purple (white), throats noticeably wider than tubes, per Flora of North America.
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Common Name:
Coastal Tall Thistle
Involucres subtend a mass of pale pink to nearly cream disk flowers, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Common Name:
Sandhill Thistle
Heads 1-5, rarely more, corymbose. Involucres 2.5-3.3cm long, arachnose, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Swamp Thistle
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Common Name:
Canada Thistle, Field Thistle
Numerous small heads (0.5"-0.75") in a branched inflorescence, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Common Name:
Nodding Thistle, Musk Thistle
Heads ~ 2" wide, usually nodding, solitary at the ends of very long stalks, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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Common Name:
Plumeless Thistle
Flower heads short-pedunculate and erect in flower, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Common Name:
Milk-thistle, Blessed-thistle
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Common Name:
Common Burdock
Flowers suggestive of a Thistle, but the leaves are neither prickly or spiny, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Common Name:
Stemless Ironweed, Carolina Ironweed
Heads discoid. Pappus whitish to stramineous [straw-like], per Flora of North America.
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Common Name:
Narrowleaf Ironweed, Slender Ironweed
Flowers of the genus Vernonia are all discoid, all bisexual, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Broadleaf Ironweed, Appalachian Ironweed, Tawny Ironweed
32-48 disk flowers per head (no ray flowers), per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Common Name:
New York Ironweed
Flower heads consist of 30-65 tubular disk flowers (no ray flowers), per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Common Name:
Tall Ironweed, Common Ironweed
13-30 flwrs per head (vs. 30-55 in V. noveboracensis), in terminal corymbs, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Tennessee Ironweed
Stem leaves abundant, stems glabrous. Flowers 16-26 per head, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
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Common Name:
narrowleaf ironweed
Heads discoid, 10-12 florets per head, per Flora of North America.
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Common Name:
Leafy Elephant's Foot, Carolina Elephant's Foot
Each head has 4 disk flowers with 5 petal-like segments, per Wildflowers of the Eastern Forests.
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Common Name:
Common Elephant's Foot, Upland Elephant's Foot, Woodland Elephant's Foot
Two to five 5-lobed disk flowers in a circle, resembling ray flowers, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Coastal Plain Elephant's Foot, Smooth Elephant's Foot, Savanna Elephant's Foot, Pineland Elephant's Foot
Flowers all discoid [no ray flowers], pink or purple, rarely white, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Common Name:
Sclerolepis, Pink bogbutton
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Common Name:
Dense Blazing-star, Mountain Blazing-star, Florist's Gayfeather, Dense Gayfeather
Flower heads in a spiciform arrangement; (4)6-8(12) florets per head, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Dense Blazing-star, Bog Blazing-star
Flower heads in a spiciform arrangement; 5-6(8) florets per head, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Narrow-leaf Blazing-star, Small-head Blazing-star
Flowers 4-5(6) per head, most corollas 6-8mm including the 1.5-2mm lobes, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
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Common Name:
Grass-leaved Blazing-star
The heads average about 10 flowers each and are almost sessile, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Common Name:
wand blazing star
Heads loosely arranged, florets 7-10 (-12), per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Smooth Blazing-star, Heller's Blazing-star
Heads of 7-10 disk flowers subtended by several series of overlapping bracts, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont.
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