Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Ragged Rosinweed 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):
Silphium reniforme
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Silphium compositum var. reniforme
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-54-002b:
Silphium compositum var. reniforme
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Ragged Rosinweed, Kidneyleaf Rosinweed
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Look for it in dry forests, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Uncommon (rare in GA)
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers functionally staminate/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads with 6-12 ray flowers, notched at apex
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p172?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p326?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p377?
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