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Dame's Rocket
Hesperis matronalis
Look for it in bottomlands, roadsides, moist forests
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The fragrant flowers are borne in showy terminal racemes on stem & branches, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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Cultivated and escaped, now invading natural areas in northern states, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
Great Willow-herb, Fireweed
Chamerion platyphyllum
Look for it on grassy balds, roadsides, montane fields, burned areas, disturbed areas
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Narrow purplish capsules angle upward, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Flowers numerous, with 4 roundish short-clawed petals and a 4-lobed stigma, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Sepals purplish, linear-oblanceolate, pubescent, 10-15mm long, 1-2mm wide, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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An erect plant 6' or taller, often abundant in recently burned-over areas, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Down-tufted seed are wind dispersed, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Numerous crowded lance-shaped, entire, sessile leaves to 6" long & 1.2" wide, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
Fireweed, Pilewort
Erechtites hieraciifolius
Look for it in disturbed soil in nearly all habitats except the extremely xeric, present in most parts of the modern (beat-up) landscape at least as seedlings, liable to turn up at the smallest disturbance (such as small tree-fall tip-up mounds or campfires, even in large natural areas), most abundant in areas extensively disturbed or scarified by timber-harvest, bulldozing, or severe fire
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Lvs alternately spiraling, sharply serrate to irregularly lobed (variable), per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
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Leaf base cuneate to attenuate or upper stem leaves auriculate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Stem slightly hairy or not, fleshy, grooved, solid with white pith, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
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Heads cylindrical but swollen at the base, bracts equal & in a single series, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Nutlets tapered, brown, ribbed, topped by soft and bright-white bristles, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
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The whitish corollas are barely visible above the involucres, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Leaves irregularly serrate to dentate, unlobed or lobed, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Appearing seemingly from nowhere, at small soil disturbances in forests, per Weakley's Flora.