Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Melanthera angustifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Melanthera angustifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Melanthera angustifolia
INCLUDED WITHIN Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Melanthera nivea
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Melanthera angustifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Melanthera angustifolia
COMMON NAME:
Prairie Black-anthers, Everglades squarestem
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Flower heads with 20-100+ disc florets and (usually) no ray flowers, per Flora of North America.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Melanthera angustifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Melanthera angustifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Melanthera angustifolia
INCLUDED WITHIN
Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Melanthera nivea
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Melanthera angustifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Melanthera angustifolia
2705
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Marl prairies, wet pine rocklands, per Weakley's Flora
Native: Florida
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LEAVES:
Simple
FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Disc: Whitish
Rays: Absent
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual
FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
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