Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Wingstems and Crownbeards from Linda Chafin and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Read more about Southern Crownbeard 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):
Verbesina occidentalis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Verbesina occidentalis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-66-003:
Verbesina occidentalis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Phaethusa occidentalis
COMMON NAME:
Southern Crownbeard, Yellow Crownbeard
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Look for it in forests, woodlands, pastures, & roadsides, esp abundant in alluvial areas or upslope over mafic or calcareous rocks, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common
...Moist
...Variable
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers sterile
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Black/Brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p184
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p213
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p092
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p124
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p273
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p333
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p385
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p200
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