Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Bigelowia nuttallii
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bigelowia nuttallii
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Bigelowia nuttallii
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Bigelowia nuttallii
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas (Correll & Johnston, 1970)
Bigelowia virgata
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chondrophora virgata
COMMON NAME:
Nuttall's Rayless-goldenrod, Glade Rayless-goldenrod, West Gulf Coastal Plain Rayless-goldenrod
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JK Marlow jkm110416_691
April Etowah County AL
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JK Marlow jkm110416_712
April Etowah County AL
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_b_nuttallii_cropped
September
Heads discoid (in glomerate clusters) in flat-topped corymbiform arrays, per Flora of North America.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_b_nuttallii_cropped_2
October
Basal leaves many, 1-2mm wide; plants strongly rhizomatous and colonial, per Weakley's Flora.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Bigelowia nuttallii
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bigelowia nuttallii
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Bigelowia nuttallii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Bigelowia nuttallii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas (Correll & Johnston, 1970)
Bigelowia virgata
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chondrophora virgata
3446
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Prairies, sandstone glades, granite flatrocks, Altamaha Grit glades, and roadbanks, per Weakley's Flora
Native to Georgia
Rare
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LEAVES:
Simple
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Disc: Yellow
Rays: Absent
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
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