4205

Forb
Perennial

Non-native: Mediterranean Europe

Documented growing wild in - - -

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

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Disc: Yellow
Rays: Absent usually (sometimes 12-15 white rays)
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers (if present) pistillate & 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 (5/21/15):
Tanacetum balsamita   FAMILY Asteraceae__

(?) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Tanacetum balsamita   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Balsamita major

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Chrysanthemum balsamita