NameThatPlant.net: Vernonia ×georgiana

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Vernonia ×georgiana FAMILY Asteraceae__ Go to FSUS key

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SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vernonia ×georgiana [acaulis × angustifolia] FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Vernonia ×georgiana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8 (2009)

Vernonia ×georgiana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Vernonia ×georgiana

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-27-001?:

Vernonia ×georgiana FAMILY Asteraceae__

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

Vernonia georgiana

COMMON NAME:
Georgia Ironweed

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Vernonia ×georgiana FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vernonia ×georgiana [acaulis × angustifolia] FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Vernonia ×georgiana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8
Vernonia ×georgiana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Vernonia ×georgiana

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-27-001?:
Vernonia ×georgiana FAMILY Asteraceae__

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

4882

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in Carolina Coastal Plain (rare in GA)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate

FLOWER:
Summer
Disc: Purplish-blue
Rays: Absent
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p351

“To learn how to observe and how to distinguish things correctly, is the greater part of education, and is that in which people otherwise well educated are apt to be surprisingly deficient. Natural objects, everywhere present and endless in variety, afford the best field for practice; and the study when young, first of Botany, and afterwards of other Natural Sciences, as they are called, is the best training that can be in these respects. This study ought to begin even before the study of language. For to distinguish things scientifically (that is, carefully and accurately) is simpler than to distinguish ideas. And in Natural History the learner is gradually led from the observation of things, up to the study of ideas or the relations of things.” — Asa Gray, in How Plants Grow: A Simple Introduction to Structural Botany

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