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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Krigia cespitosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
Go to FSUS key
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Opposite-leaf Dwarf-dandelion at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDED WITHIN & ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Krigia caespitosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Krigia caespitosa var. caespitosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Krigia cespitosa var. cespitosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-15-005:
Krigia oppositifolia FAMILY Asteraceae_
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Serinia oppositifolia
COMMON NAME:
Opposite-leaf Dwarf-dandelion
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_seop_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm220421_7192
April Pickens County SC
Nine Times Forest
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Keith Bradley kab_krigia_cespitosa_3408
April Richland County SC
Compact flower heads are borne singly at the end of short axillary stalks, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
COMPARE
Dandelions and Dandelion-like species
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_krigia_cespitosa_3
April
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_krigia_cespitosa
June Iredell County NC
The only leafy-branched Krigia of the southeastern Atlantic Coastal Plain, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Krigia cespitosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
INCLUDED WITHIN & ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Krigia caespitosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Krigia caespitosa var. caespitosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Krigia cespitosa var. cespitosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-15-005:
Krigia oppositifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Serinia oppositifolia
3161
Forb
Winter annual
Habitat: Fields, roadsides, disturbed places, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette & alternate, subopposite or opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Yellow, Orange-yellow
Disc: Absent
Inferior ovary
Ray flowers bisexual
Flower heads solitary on long stalks from upper leaf axils
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Reddish-brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p177
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p296
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p133
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p310
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p360
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p177
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p326
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