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
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!
Packera aurea FAMILY Asteraceae
Golden Ragwort, Heartleaf Ragwort
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Golden Ragwort at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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JK Marlow jkm080421_110
April Haywood County NC
Heads several, in open clusters on slender stalks, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
JK Marlow jkm140418_262
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
10-12 ray flowers, 0.25-0.5" long. Disk 0.2-0.5" wide, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
JK Marlow jkm200403_3445
April Greenville County SC
Phyllaries green (the tips purple or black), per Flora of North America.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of DYCs
JK Marlow jkm200403_3447
April Greenville County SC
Involucres narrowly campanulate, bracts in 1 series, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
JK Marlow s040404_bc
April Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Base of basal leaves cordate or truncate; leaf undersides often purple, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
JK Marlow jkm080503_036
May Greenville County SC
Fruits brownish cylindric achenes; pappus a tuft of white bristles, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.