Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Vernonia glauca
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Broadleaf Ironweed at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vernonia glauca
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-27-004:
Vernonia glauca
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
COMMON NAME:
Broadleaf Ironweed, Appalachian Ironweed, Tawny Ironweed
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_vegl_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm110821_278
August Pickens County SC
Hagood Mill
Leaves numerous, elliptic to lanceolate, usually glaucous beneath, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm110821_278b
August Pickens County SC
Hagood Mill
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JK Marlow jkm110821_278c
August Pickens County SC
Hagood Mill
32-48 disk flowers per head (no ray flowers), per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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JK Marlow jkm110821_281
August Pickens County SC
Hagood Mill
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmvglauca_wm1
Month Unknown Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmvglauca_wm2
Month Unknown Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Vernonia glauca
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vernonia glauca
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-27-004:
Vernonia glauca
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
1608
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Look for it in pastures, bottomlands, streamsides, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Disc: Purplish-blue
Rays: Absent
Bisexual
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p049
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p388
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p104
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p188