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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Euthamia leptocephala   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Euthamia leptocephala   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Euthamia leptocephala

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Solidago leptocephala

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Euthamia leptocephala

 

COMMON NAME:
Narrowhead Goldentop, Mississippi Valley Flat-topped Goldenrod


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image of Euthamia leptocephala, Narrowhead Goldentop, Mississippi Valley Flat-topped Goldenrod

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_eule4_001_lvd

        

image of Euthamia leptocephala, Narrowhead Goldentop, Mississippi Valley Flat-topped Goldenrod

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_e_leptocephala_crop

September        

Involucres cylindric, 0.2" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Euthamia leptocephala, Narrowhead Goldentop, Mississippi Valley Flat-topped Goldenrod

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_e_leptocephala_crop_2

September        

Flower heads small, numerous, in a flat-topped corymb, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Euthamia leptocephala, Narrowhead Goldentop, Mississippi Valley Flat-topped Goldenrod

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_e_leptocephala_crop2b

September        

Leaves 10-20x long as wide, 1-3 nerved, inconspicuously resin-dotted, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Euthamia leptocephala   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Euthamia leptocephala   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Euthamia leptocephala

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Solidago leptocephala

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Euthamia leptocephala

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3622

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Fields, pastures, roadsides, prairies, savannas, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

Rare in GA

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LEAVES:
Simple

Leaves chiefly on the stem (basal & lower stem leaves either withering early or equal/smaller than middle & upper stem leaves)

Alternate
Leaves sessile

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

Flower heads in rounded corymbose inflorescences

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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