3163

Forb
Perennial

Native to Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA - -

Rare

Look for it in wet flatwoods, pine savannas, and pitcherplant bogs, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet

LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual/ Ray flowers pistillate
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Achene

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p178
• Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia p267

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Pityopsis oligantha   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pityopsis oligantha   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Pityopsis oligantha

SYNONYMOUS WITH Taxonomic synopsis of Pityopsis (Asteraceae) (Nesom, 2019)
Pityopsis oligantha

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)
Chrysopsis oligantha

SYNONYMOUS WITH A biosystematic study of Heterotheca section Pityopsis (Bowers, 1972)
Heterotheca oligantha

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Pityopsis oligantha