Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Wingstems and Crownbeards from Linda Chafin and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Yellow Crownbeard (V. occidentalis) is very similar to Wingstem but always has opposite leaves. Read more 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 (5/21/15):
Verbesina alternifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Verbesina alternifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Actinomeris alternifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-66-002:
Verbesina alternifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Ridan alternifolia
COMMON NAME:
Common Wingstem
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Look for it in alluvial forests, marshes, floodplain pastures, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common (rare in Coastal Plain of GA & SC)
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers sterile
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Black
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p183
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p091
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p124
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p332
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p384
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p200
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