Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
The epithet retains the spelling "uvedalia" regardless of the grammatical gender of the genus, as it is a pre-Linnaean genus name honoring Robert Uvedale (1642-1722) and therefore a noun in apposition. Read more in Weakley's Flora.
Read more about Bearsfoot at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Smallanthus uvedalia
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Smallanthus uvedalius
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-52-001:
Polymnia uvedalia
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Bearsfoot, Hairy Leafcup, Yellow Leafcup
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Look for it in moist forests, bottomland forests, and disturbed places, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common
...Moist
LEAVES:
Simple - palmately lobed
Mostly opposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual but sterile/ Ray flowers pistillate and fertile
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Black/Blackish
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p210
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p390
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p151
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p118
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p268
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p317
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p378
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p200
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