Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Common Sneezeweed 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):
Helenium autumnale
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Helenium autumnale var. autumnale
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS National Database
Helenium autumnale var. parviflorum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-75-001:
Helenium autumnale
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Common Sneezeweed
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Look for it in moist pastures, forests, woodlands, forest edges, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common
...Wet
...Moist
...Variable
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate & basal
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual/ Ray flowers pistillate and fertile
Disc flowers five-lobed; ray flowers three-lobed
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown/Gray
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers p167
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p092
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p133
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p119
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p376
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p082
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p129
- Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p204
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p276
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p300
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p349
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p190
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