Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Downy Sunflower 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):
Helianthus mollis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Helianthus mollis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-65-010:
Helianthus mollis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Downy Sunflower, Ashy Sunflower, Gray Sunflower
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Look for it in calcareous prairies and barrens, disturbed places, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Native to Georgia & westward
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Rare
...Variable
...Dry
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves sessile
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate but sterile
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Black
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p135
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p304
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p353
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p191
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