3163

Forb
Perennial

Native to Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA - -

Rare

Look for it in wet flatwoods and pitcherplant bogs, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet

LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal

FLOWER:
Spring
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual/ Ray flowers pistillate
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Spring
Achene

 

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

• Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p178
• Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia p267

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Pityopsis oligantha   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pityopsis oligantha   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)
Chrysopsis oligantha

SYNONYMOUS WITH Heterotheca oligantha