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Flower heads pendent, each subtended by a foliaceous bract, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Racemes 3-16cm long. Heads pendant, each head subtended by a foliaceous bract, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Staminate heads 3-5mm broad, peduncles 2-7mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Male flowers in spikelike clusters that terminate stem and upper branches, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
Flowers borne in numerous upright heads within a flat-topped inflorescence, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
INCLUDED WITHIN
Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)
Cacalia ovata
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.
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
Corollas salmon or red-orange; involucre 1-2(-3)x as high as wide, per Weakley's Flora.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Senecio vulgaris
Heads lack ray flowers; outer bracts have black tips, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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.
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.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Centaurea cyanus
Marginal florets enlarged, bell-shaped, with sharply pointed segments, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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.
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
Involucres 1.0"-1.5" tall, bracts all have distinct yellowish spines, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
Yellow Thistle is a robust plant w large purple heads frequently > 2" across, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
Uppermost leaves just below the head, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
Involucres have the middle and outer bracts tipped with a spine, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
Corollas purple, 21-26 mm, throats noticeably wider than tubes, per Flora of North America.
Corollas pink-purple (white), throats noticeably wider than tubes, per Flora of North America.
Involucres subtend a mass of pale pink to nearly cream disk flowers, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
Heads 1-5, rarely more, corymbose. Involucres 2.5-3.3cm long, arachnose, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Cirsium odoratum
Numerous small heads (0.5"-0.75") in a branched inflorescence, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
INCLUDING
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.
Flower heads short-pedunculate and erect in flower, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Mariana mariana
Flowers suggestive of a Thistle, but the leaves are neither prickly or spiny, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
Heads discoid. Pappus whitish to stramineous [straw-like], per Flora of North America.
Flowers of the genus Vernonia are all discoid, all bisexual, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
32-48 disk flowers per head (no ray flowers), per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
Flower heads consist of 30-65 tubular disk flowers (no ray flowers), per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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.
Stem leaves abundant, stems glabrous. Flowers 16-26 per head, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
Heads discoid, 10-12 florets per head, per Flora of North America.
Each head has 4 disk flowers with 5 petal-like segments, per Wildflowers of the Eastern Forests.
Two to five 5-lobed disk flowers in a circle, resembling ray flowers, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
Flowers all discoid [no ray flowers], pink or purple, rarely white, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
INCLUDED WITHIN
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.
Flower heads in a spiciform arrangement; 5-6(8) florets per head, per Weakley's Flora.
Flowers 4-5(6) per head, most corollas 6-8mm including the 1.5-2mm lobes, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
The heads average about 10 flowers each and are almost sessile, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
INCLUDING
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Liatris graminifolia var. virgata
Heads loosely arranged, florets 7-10 (-12), per Weakley's Flora.
INCLUDING
PLANTS National Database
Liatris turgida
INCLUDING
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 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.
Each head composed of 4-9 disc flowers, each with 5 short spreading lobes, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
Typically, numerous clusters of florets in a one-sided (secund) arrangement. Will Stuart
Flower heads in a dense long spikelike raceme, usually 5 flowers per head, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
Heads usually sessile, less commonly peduncles 1-8mm (rarely more), per Weakley's Flora.
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