Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Balduina atropurpurea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
For more information about this very rare plant, read the US Fish & Wildlife Service's fact sheet.
Read more from the South Carolina Plant Conservation Alliance.
Read more about Balduina at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Balduina atropurpurea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-68-002:
Balduina atropurpurea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Endorima atropurpurea
COMMON NAME:
Purple-disk Honeycomb-head, Bog Honeycomb-head, Purple Balduina, Purple Honeycomb-head
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Balduina atropurpurea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Balduina atropurpurea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-68-002:
Balduina atropurpurea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Endorima atropurpurea
3156
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Rare, endemic to the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Look for it in peaty seepage bogs and wet pine savannas, 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:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Reddish-purple
Disc flowers bisexual/ Ray flowers sterile
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Fall
Dark brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!