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Read more about Showy 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 laetiflorus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Helianthus ×laetiflorus [pauciflorus × tuberosus]
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-65-009:
Helianthus laetiflorus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Helianthus laetiflorus var. laetiflorus
COMMON NAME:
Showy Sunflower, cheerful sunflower
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Look for it in disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Native: west of the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Uncommon (rare in GA)
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow with dark lobes
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate but sterile
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
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