Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Robbins' 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 schweinitziana
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Packera schweinitziana
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Segregates of Senecio & Cacalia in the flora of North America... (Barkley, 1999)
Packera schweinitzianus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)
Senecio schweinitzianus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-19-007:
Senecio robbinsii
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Robbins' Ragwort, New England Ragwort, New England Groundsel, Schweinitz's Ragwort
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Look for it on grassy balds (in deep soil), at high elevations, in our area generally over metagabbro or amphibolite, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Native to North Carolina
Documented growing wild in
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NC
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Rare
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p378
- 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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