Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Golden Ragwort 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):
Packera aurea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Packera aurea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-19-008:
Senecio aureus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Golden Ragwort, Heartleaf Ragwort
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Look for it in moist forests, bottomlands, bogs, streambanks, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common
...Wet
...Moist
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers p255
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South p112
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p170
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers p062
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p378
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p089
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p130
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest p218
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p323
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p373
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p198
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