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2863

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Uncommon

Look for it in brackish marshes, salt marshes, marsh edges, wet hammocks, per Weakley's Flora

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full sun ...Wet ...Variable

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Leaves sessile

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary
Flower heads in flat corymbose inflorescences

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall

 

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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
 Euthamia hirtipes   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Euthamia graminifolia var. hirtipes   FAMILY Asteraceae

LESS THAN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 179-49-037:
 Solidago tenuifolia   FAMILY Asteraceae

LESS THAN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
 Euthamia tenuifolia

LESS THAN Flora of North America
 Euthamia graminifolia

 

COMMON NAME:
 Marsh Flat-topped Goldenrod

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image of Euthamia hirtipes, Marsh Flat-topped Goldenrod

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_euthamia_hirtipes1

October    Dare County    NC

image of Euthamia hirtipes, Marsh Flat-topped Goldenrod

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_euthamia_hirtipes1b

October    Dare County    NC

Leaves >3mm wide, without axillary fascicles, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Euthamia hirtipes, Marsh Flat-topped Goldenrod

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_euthamia_hirtipes2

October    Dare County    NC

Inflorescences flat-topped corymbs; heads with 10-20 flowers, per Weakley's Flora.