Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Blue Ridge 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 millefolium
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Packera millefolium
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Packera millefolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-19-003:
Senecio millefolium
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Blue Ridge Ragwort, Yarrowleaf Ragwort, Divided-leaf Ragwort
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Look for it on granitic domes, cliffs, and rocky woodlands, over granite, gneiss, schist, and amphibolite, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Rare, endemic to sw. NC, nw. SC, and ne. GA; disjunct in sw. VA
LEAVES:
Simple: Dissected
Mostly basal
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!
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p131
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p415
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p197
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