1384

Forb
Perennial

Native

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common in NC Piedmont, uncommon in NC Mountains, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC

Look for it in woodlands, on roadsides, per Weakley's Flora

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...Variable ...Dry

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite, rarely alternate (basal leaves absent at flowering)

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers functionally staminate/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads with 8-20 ray flowers, notched at apex
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• All About South Carolina Wildflowers p258
• Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p172?
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p119
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p324
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p375?
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p199

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Silphium asteriscus var. asteriscus   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Silphium asteriscus var. asteriscus   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDING VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-54-005:
Silphium asteriscus   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDING Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968)
Silphium dentatum var. gatesii

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Silphium asteriscus

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Silphium asteriscus

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Silphium scaberrimum