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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Chrysogonum australe
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Chrysogonum virginianum var. australe
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Chrysogonum virginianum var. australe
SYNONYMOUS WITH Chrysogonum (Asteraceae) revisited again (Nesom, 2020)
Chrysogonum australe
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Chrysogonum virginianum var. australe
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-56-001b?:
Chrysogonum virginianum var. australe FAMILY Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chrysogonum australe
COMMON NAME:
Gulf Coast Green-and-gold
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Chuck Hubbuch chk_081723_0852
August Greenville County SC
in cultivation
Both earliest and late flowering stems leafless; longest stolon internodes 12-60cm long, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Chrysogonum australe
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Chrysogonum virginianum var. australe
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Chrysogonum virginianum var. australe
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Chrysogonum (Asteraceae) revisited again (Nesom, 2020)
Chrysogonum australe
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Chrysogonum virginianum var. australe
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-56-001b?:
Chrysogonum virginianum var. australe
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chrysogonum australe
4663
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Moist to fairly dry woodlands and forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to Georgia
Rare
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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Plants stoloniferous, stolons usually above ground
FLOWER:
Spring
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Flower heads with 5(6) ray flowers
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers functionally staminate/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
FRUIT:
Spring
Black/Brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p115
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p278
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p066
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