Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Virginia Cup-plant 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 connatum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Silphium perfoliatum var. connatum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-54-001?:
Silphium connatum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Virginia Cup-plant
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Look for it in floodplain forests & openings, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Native to North Carolina
Documented growing wild in
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NC
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Uncommon
...Wet
...Moist
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite (connate-perfoliate)
FLOWER:
Summer
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers functionally staminate/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads with usually around 8 or 13 rays, notched at apex
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p172?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p325?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p376?
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