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3729

Forb
Perennial

Native to Alabama

Documented growing wild in GA NC -

Uncommon in GA Mtns, rare (& introduced) elsewhere in GA-NC

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

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full sun

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate

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

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
 Heterotheca camporum var. glandulissima   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Heterotheca camporum var. glandulissimum   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
 Chrysopsis camporum var. glandulissima

INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
 Chrysopsis villosa var. camporum

INCLUDED WITHIN Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
 Chrysopsis camporum

 

COMMON NAME:
 Nashville Camphorweed, Lemon-yellow Goldenaster, Lemon-yellow False Goldenaster

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image of Heterotheca camporum var. glandulissima, Nashville Camphorweed, Lemon-yellow Goldenaster, Lemon-yellow False Goldenaster

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_h_camp_gland_9

August        

Stems with coarse spreading hairs. Recently introduced to southeastern US, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.