Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Scratch-daisy 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):
Croptilon divaricatum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Croptilon divaricatum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-48-001:
Haplopappus divaricatus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Isopappus divaricatus
COMMON NAME:
Scratch-daisy, Goldenweed, Slender Scratch-daisy
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Look for it in sandy soils of fields, roadsides, and sandhill woodlands, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Annual
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common (rare in Mountains, uncommon in NC Piedmont)
LEAVES:
Simple
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p171
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p046
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p324
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