Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Krigia cespitosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
Go to FSUS key
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Opposite-leaf Dwarf-dandelion at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDED WITHIN & ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Krigia caespitosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Krigia cespitosa var. cespitosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Krigia caespitosa var. caespitosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-15-005:
Krigia oppositifolia FAMILY Asteraceae_
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Serinia oppositifolia
COMMON NAME:
Opposite-leaf Dwarf-dandelion
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_seop_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm220421_7192
April Pickens County SC
Nine Times Forest
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Keith Bradley kab_krigia_cespitosa_3408
April Richland County SC
Compact flower heads are borne singly at the end of short axillary stalks, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
COMPARE
Dandelions and Dandelion-like species
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_krigia_cespitosa_3
April
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_krigia_cespitosa
June Iredell County NC
The only leafy-branched Krigia of the southeastern Atlantic Coastal Plain, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Krigia cespitosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
INCLUDED WITHIN & ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Krigia caespitosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Krigia cespitosa var. cespitosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Krigia caespitosa var. caespitosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-15-005:
Krigia oppositifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Serinia oppositifolia
3161
Forb
Winter annual
Habitat: Fields, roadsides, disturbed places, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common
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Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette & alternate, subopposite or opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Yellow, Orange-yellow
Disc: Absent
Ray flowers bisexual
Inferior ovary
Flower heads solitary on long stalks from upper leaf axils
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Reddish-brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p177
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p296
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p133
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p310
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p360
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p177
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p326