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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Packera anonyma
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Small's Ragwort at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Packera anonyma
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Packera anonyma
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
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Senecio smallii
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 (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm200411_3762
April Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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JK Marlow jkm200422_4020
April Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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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 (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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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 (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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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 (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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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 (Smith, 1998).
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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 (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm210919_3728
September Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Packera anonyma
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Packera anonyma
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Packera anonyma
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
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Senecio smallii
1364
Forb
Winter annual
Habitat: rock outcrops, roadsides, woodlands; hammocks, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common
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Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
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 (Midgley, 1999) p255
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p392
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p251
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p303
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p131
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest: Northeastern US (Clemants & Gracie, 2006) p218
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p251
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p104
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p322
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p373
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p197
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p322