2416

Forb
Annual

Native to Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA - -

Common in GA Coastal Plain (an endemic). It should be sought in SC

Look for it in longleaf pine sandhills, pine rocklands, and other dry, sandy soils, per Weakley's Flora

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...Dry

LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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

• Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p277
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p127

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Balduina angustifolia   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Balduina angustifolia   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Actinospermum angustifolium