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
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!
Helenium autumnale FAMILY Asteraceae
Common Sneezeweed
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Common Sneezeweed at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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JK Marlow jkm120804_321
August Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
Ray flowers (what looks like petals) have 3 lobes and widen at their ends, per All About South Carolina Wildflowers.
JK Marlow jkm120804_333
August Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
Leaves narrowly ovate, mostly toothed, bases decurrent on the stem, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
JK Marlow jkm070917_089
September Haywood County NC
Pisgah National Forest: Pisgah Ranger District
Disc flowers yellow, in a dome. Ray flowers 12-20, 3-lobed at their tips, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
JK Marlow jkm070917_091
September Haywood County NC
Pisgah National Forest: Pisgah Ranger District
Like H. amarum, it is bitter and unpalatable to grazing animals, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
JK Marlow jkm070917_096
September Haywood County NC
Pisgah National Forest: Pisgah Ranger District
Involucre of one series of linear bracts, 5-10mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of DYCs with ray and disc flowers
JK Marlow jkm150912_100
September Clay County NC
Nantahala National Forest: Tusquitee Ranger District
JK Marlow jkm150912_102
September Clay County NC
Nantahala National Forest: Tusquitee Ranger District
JK Marlow jkm150912_119
September Clay County NC
Nantahala National Forest: Tusquitee Ranger District
JK Marlow jkm150912_147
September Clay County NC
Nantahala National Forest: Tusquitee Ranger District
JK Marlow jkm150912_152
September Clay County NC
Nantahala National Forest: Tusquitee Ranger District
JK Marlow jkm150912_153
September Clay County NC
Nantahala National Forest: Tusquitee Ranger District