Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Verbesina occidentalis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Wingstems and Crownbeards from Linda Chafin and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Read more about Southern Crownbeard at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Verbesina occidentalis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-66-003:
Verbesina occidentalis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Phaethusa occidentalis
COMMON NAME:
Southern Crownbeard, Yellow Crownbeard
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_phoc4_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm0203c_09a
March Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm0204d_06
April Greenville County SC
Leaves ovate with winged stalks that extend down the stem, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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JK Marlow jkm210406_9209
April Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm210413_9472
April Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm0405x_16
May Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
Leaf apex acuminate, margin irregularly serrate, base widely cuneate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm200608_5796
June Greenville County SC
Lake Conestee Nature Park
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JK Marlow jkm180716_3416
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm0109b_23a
September Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm0109f_15a
September Greenville County SC
Perennial from 3-7' tall, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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JK Marlow jkm0309a_11
September Greenville County SC
Roadside
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JK Marlow jkm060917_001
September Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm060917_003
September Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm180905_4565
September Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm180905_4567
September Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm180917_4781
September Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200916_7229
September Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm200916_7230
September Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Ray flowers just emerging, disc flowers not yet opened.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_v_occidentalis_11
September
Five or fewer irregularly spaced, drooping yellow rays, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm121006_298
October Washington County VA
Virginia Creeper Trail
Phyllaries in 2 series, more or less erect, per Flora of North America.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of DYCs with ray and disc flowers
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JK Marlow jkm121006_301
October Washington County VA
Virginia Creeper Trail
Disc florets bisexual and fertile, per Flora of North America.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Verbesina occidentalis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Verbesina occidentalis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-66-003:
Verbesina occidentalis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Phaethusa occidentalis
1603
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Habitat: forests, woodlands, pastures, and roadsides, especially abundant in alluvial areas or upslope over mafic or calcareous rocks, per Weakley's Flora
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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers sterile
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Black/Brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p184
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p213
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p092
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p301
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p124
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p273
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p333
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p385
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p200