Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Woodland 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 divaricatus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Helianthus divaricatus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-65-011:
Helianthus divaricatus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Woodland Sunflower, Spreading Sunflower
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Look for it in mesic to dry woodlands & forests, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
...Moist
...Dry
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate but sterile
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer
Brown/Blackish
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p175
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p094
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p388
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p084
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p302
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p351
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p191
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p134
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