Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (4/24/22):
Packera schweinitziana
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Robbins' Ragwort at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Packera schweinitziana
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Packera schweinitziana
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Segregates of Senecio & Cacalia in the flora of North America... (Barkley, 1999)
Packera schweinitzianus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)
Senecio schweinitzianus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-19-007:
Senecio robbinsii
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Senecio robbinsii
COMMON NAME:
Robbins' Ragwort, New England Ragwort, New England Groundsel, Schweinitz's Ragwort
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_sero6_001_lvd
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Diane Creaton dmc03311
June Avery County NC
The Roan Highlands
Basal lf blade 2-8x long as wide, base truncate to cordate (typically oblique), per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm100626_070
June Avery County NC
The Roan Highlands
Heads 8-20+ in loose, corymbiform arrays, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm100626_073
June Avery County NC
The Roan Highlands
Phyllaries 13 or 21, light green (tips sometimes black), 5-8mm, glabrous, per Flora of North America.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of DYCs with ray and disc flowers
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (4/24/22):
Packera schweinitziana
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Packera schweinitziana
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Packera schweinitziana
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Segregates of Senecio & Cacalia in the flora of North America... (Barkley, 1999)
Packera schweinitzianus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)
Senecio schweinitzianus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-19-007:
Senecio robbinsii
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Senecio robbinsii
1363
Forb
Perennial
Native to North Carolina
Rare
Habitat: Grassy balds (in deep soil), at high elevations, in our area generally over metagabbro or amphibolite, per Weakley's Flora
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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p378
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest p218
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p323
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p373
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p198