Native & Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas & Georgia

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3408

Forb
Annual

Non-native: Central & South America

Documented growing wild in - NC SC

Uncommon

Look for it in disturbed areas, roadsides, barnyards, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Rays: White
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
 Galinsoga parviflora var. parviflora   FAMILY Asteraceae

LESS THAN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Galinsoga parviflora   FAMILY Asteraceae

 

COMMON NAME:
 Lesser Peruvian-daisy, Gallant Soldiers

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image of Galinsoga parviflora var. parviflora, Lesser Peruvian-daisy, Gallant Soldiers

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_gapa2_001_lvd