Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
You may find it helpful to read Dandelions, True or False? by Jan Haldeman.
Read more about Carolina False-dandelion 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 (11/30/12):
Pyrrhopappus carolinianus
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pyrrhopappus carolinianus
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
INCLUDING
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-16-001:
Pyrrhopappus carolinianus var. carolinianus
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
INCLUDING
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968)
Pyrrhopappus carolinianus var. georgianus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Sitilias caroliniana
COMMON NAME:
Carolina False-dandelion
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Look for it in dry and moist forests, roadsides, meadows, fields, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Biennial, rarely perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common (uncommon in NC-SC Mountains)
...Moist
...Dry
DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal often withered toward the end of flowering)
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Absent
Ray flowers bisexual
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p154
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p379
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p200
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p134
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p319
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p369
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p178
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p325
- Weeds of Southern Turfgrasses p107
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