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)
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
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Helianthus divaricatus FAMILY Asteraceae
Woodland Sunflower, Spreading Sunflower
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Woodland Sunflower at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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JK Marlow jkm120506_678
May Oconee County SC
Its widely spreading leaves are commonly at right angles to the stem, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
JK Marlow jkm0406n_03
June Pickens County SC
Roadside
Flower heads composed of a 1/2" disk of tubular yellow flowers & 8-15 rays, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
JK Marlow s040629_a
June Pickens County SC
Roadside
Opposite, virtually sessile leaves with abruptly rounded bases, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
JK Marlow s040629_b
June Pickens County SC
Roadside
Leaves do not clasp & taper gradually to a long tip, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
JK Marlow jkm0408k_09
August Oconee County SC
Leaves sessile, the 2 lateral veins diverging from midrib at very base of leaf, per Weakley's Flora.
COMPARE
leaves of Hairy Sunflower and Woodland Sunflower