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
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!
Smallanthus uvedalia FAMILY Asteraceae
Bearsfoot, Hairy Leafcup, Yellow Leafcup
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.
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JK Marlow jkm170624_269
June Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
Stipules?
JK Marlow s060617_a
June Greenville County SC
Roadside/creekside
Leaves triangular to ovate w mostly palmate lobes, broadly winged petioles, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
JK Marlow jkm120825_948949
August Greenville County SC
Jones Gap State Park
Involucral bracts ovate to elliptic, obtuse to acutish, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of DYCs with ray and disc flowers
JK Marlow jkm190905_1317
September Greenville County SC
Disc flowers with pistils & stamens, but sterile. Ray flowers pistillate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
JK Marlow jkm151128_052
November Greenville County SC
Black, rounded, swollen achenes 0.25" long, faintly grooved, pappus absent, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.