Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Astranthium integrifolium
FAMILY
Asteraceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Eastern Western-daisy at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Astranthium integrifolium ssp. integrifolium
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Astranthium integrifolium var. integrifolium
COMMON NAME:
Eastern Western-daisy, Entireleaf Western-daisy
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_bein4_001_lvd
Leaves mostly spatulate below, linear to elliptic above, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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April
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_a_integrifolium_weste
April
Flower heads from 0.7-1.4" wide, with 8-30 white rays tinged with lavender, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_a_integrifolium
October
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Astranthium integrifolium
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Astranthium integrifolium ssp. integrifolium
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Astranthium integrifolium var. integrifolium
3587
Forb
Annual/Biennial?
Native to Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA - -
Rare in GA
Look for it in limestone glades, 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
Basal & alternate
Most leaves have petioles.
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: White
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads with 8-30 ray flowers
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p278
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p327