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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Packera anonyma
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Read more about Small's Ragwort at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Packera anonyma
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)
Senecio anonymus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-19-004:
Senecio smallii
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Small's Ragwort, Squaw-weed, Appalachian Ragwort
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_sesm3_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm0204v_07a
April Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm0504b_09
April Greenville County SC
Field
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JK Marlow jkm0504b_09b
April Greenville County SC
Field
Basal leaves toothed or scalloped, some pinnately lobed, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm200411_3762
April Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200422_4020
April Greenville County SC
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Keith Bradley kab_packera_anonyma_5085
April Lancaster County SC
Forty Acre Rock Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm0205a_06
May Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm0505c_18
May Greenville County SC
Roadside
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JK Marlow jkm120512_701
May Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120512_702b
May Greenville County SC
Fruit ellipsoid achenes; pappus a tuft of white bristles, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm180509_2037
May Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm180509_2040
May Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200516_4871
May Pickens County SC
8-15 ray flowers, 0.2-0.3" long, surround a disk 0.2-0.3" wide, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm210513_0233
May Oconee County SC
Boone's Creek Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm210513_0236
May Oconee County SC
Boone's Creek Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm210513_0237
May Oconee County SC
Boone's Creek Preserve
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JK Marlow s000510_a
May Greenville County SC
Usually 20-100 heads in a corymb-like inflorescence, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow s000510_c
May Greenville County SC
Cauline leaves few, deeply pinnatifid, becoming sessile above, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow s120524_a
May Greenville County SC
Elongate basal lvs with elliptic, blunt-tipped blades taper to long petioles, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm210919_3728
September Greenville County SC
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Packera anonyma
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Packera anonyma
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)
Senecio anonymus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-19-004:
Senecio smallii
FAMILY
Asteraceae
1364
Forb
Winter annual
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Look for it on rock outcrops, roadsides, woodlands, hammocks, disturbed areas, 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.
...Variable
...Dry
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!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers p255
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p392
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p303
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p131
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest p218
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p251
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p322
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p373
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p197
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p322