Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Packera glabella
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Packera glabella
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-19-002:
Senecio glabellus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Butterweed, Smooth Ragwort, Yellowtop
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_pagl17_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_segl_001_lvd
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Will Stuart wil_8459043246_c3ebc3475f
January LA
Often forming dense stands, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC.
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JK Marlow jkm090221_062
February Richland County SC
Congaree National Park
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JK Marlow jkm100313_058
March Gadsden County FL
Angus Gholson Nature Park
Annual, strict or branched above, 0.3-1m tall, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm100313_061
March Gadsden County FL
Angus Gholson Nature Park
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JK Marlow jkm100313_064
March Gadsden County FL
Angus Gholson Nature Park
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JK Marlow jkm100313_067
March Gadsden County FL
Angus Gholson Nature Park
Thickened 1-2.5' stem erect, mostly glabrous, but often hairy in leaf axils, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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JK Marlow jkm170320_0248
March Laurens County SC
Charlie Lollis Memorial Park
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JK Marlow jkm170320_154
March Laurens County SC
Charlie Lollis Memorial Park
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Keith Bradley kab_p_glabella_01309
March Miami-Dade County FL
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JK Marlow jkm070414_035
April Calhoun County SC
Congaree Bluffs Heritage Preserve
Leaves pinnately divided into rounded lobes with large teeth, per All About South Carolina Wildflowers.
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JK Marlow jkm070414_036
April Calhoun County SC
Congaree Bluffs Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm070414_040
April Calhoun County SC
Congaree Bluffs Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm130415_381
April Greenville County SC
Lake Conestee Nature Park
10-15 showy ray flowers, 0.2-0.4" long, surround 0.25" disk, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm170408_484
April Laurens County SC
Sumter National Forest: Tyger Ranger District
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_glabella_butterwd2
April
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JK Marlow s070414_a
April Calhoun County SC
Congaree Bluffs Heritage Preserve
Basal leaves mostly pinnatifid with rounded lobes & teeth. Stem lvs similar, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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JK Marlow jkm100513_020
May Greenville County SC
Lake Conestee Nature Park
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JK Marlow jkm100513_021
May Greenville County SC
Lake Conestee Nature Park
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Packera glabella
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Packera glabella
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-19-002:
Senecio glabellus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
1359
Forb
Winter annual
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Look for it in swamp forests, bottomland forests, cleared areas in bottomlands, often in mucky soils, 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.
...Wet
...Moist
...Variable
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary
Flowers in corymbs
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers p254
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p178
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South p112
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p302
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p304
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p121
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p130
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest p182
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p323
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p374
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p249