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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.
LESS THAN
Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)
Cacalia ovata
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Common Name:
Pale Indian Plantain
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Mesadenia atriplicifolia
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
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Arnoglossum muehlenbergii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Mesadenia reniformis
Heads 5-flowered. Involucres cylindric, 7-10mm long, 3-4mm broad, bracts 5, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)
Cacalia diversifolia
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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
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)
Cacalia rugelia
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
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Erechtites hieraciifolius var. hieraciifolius
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Erechtites hieraciifolia var. hieraciifolia
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
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Centaurea biebersteinii
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.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The families and genera of vascular plants (Kadereit & Jeffrey, 2007)
Rhaponticum repens
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Centaurea repens
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Acosta diffusa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Centaurea melitensis
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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
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cirsium odoratum
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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
GREATER THAN
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Carduus nutans ssp. macrolepis
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
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Mariana mariana
(?) INVALID NAME
Carduus marianus
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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
LESS THAN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Lacinaria spicata
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
GREATER THAN
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Liatris graminifolia var. virgata
Heads loosely arranged, florets 7-10 (-12), per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Smooth Blazing-star, Heller's Blazing-star
GREATER THAN
PLANTS National Database
Liatris turgida
GREATER THAN
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968)
Liatris turgida
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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