Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Rugelia nudicaulis
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Rugel's Ragwort at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rugelia nudicaulis
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)
Cacalia rugelia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-19-010:
Senecio rugelia
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
COMMON NAME:
Rugel's Ragwort, Rugelia, Rugel's Indian Plantain
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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L.L. (Chick) Gaddy llg_rugelsragwort
July-August? NC-TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Flower heads nodding, to 0.4" across, with protruding bifurcate stigmas, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm190914_1488
September Swain County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm190914_1496
September Swain County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Phyllaries in 1-2 series, erect (spreading in age), lance-linear to linear, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm190914_1499
September Swain County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm190914_1501
September Swain County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Locally abundant in high-elevation spruce-fir forests in the Smokies, per Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers.
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JK Marlow jkm190914_1512
September Swain County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Rugel's Ragwort is known only from the high elevations of the Smokies, per Alpine South: Plants and Plant Communities of the High Elevations of the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm190914_1514
September Swain County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Leaves broadly ovate, 3-6" long, coarsely toothed, long-petioled, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm190914_1515
September Swain County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm190914_1517
September Swain County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Achenes are brown, smooth & cylindric; pappus is a tuft of white bristles, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm190914_1562
September Swain County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Stem leaves alternate, bract-like, much smaller than the basal leaves, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Rugelia nudicaulis
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rugelia nudicaulis
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)
Cacalia rugelia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-19-010:
Senecio rugelia
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
1907
Forb
Perennial
Native to North Carolina
Documented growing wild in - NC -
Rare, endemic to the Great Smoky Mtns in NC-TN
Look for it in high elevation forests and openings, primarily in spruce-fir forests, but extending in places downslope into northern hardwood forests, 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.
LEAVES:
A combination of evergreen & deciduous
Simple
Mostly basal (stem leaves alternate and bractlike)
FLOWER:
Summer
Disc: Yellow
Rays: Absent
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers p100
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p288
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p322
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p372
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p183