531

Forb
Winter annual

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common

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

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...Variable

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Rays: White/Lavender/Blue
Disc: Yellow/Yellowish
Flower heads with 50-100 ray flowers
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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

• All About South Carolina Wildflowers p148
• Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p064
• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p382
• Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p185
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p115
• Wildflowers in the Field and Forest p290
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p293
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p341
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p214
• Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p048
• Weeds of Southern Turfgrasses p094

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Erigeron strigosus var. strigosus   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Erigeron strigosus var. strigosus   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDING PLANTS National Database
Erigeron strigosus var. beyrichii

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-44-005:
Erigeron strigosus   FAMILY Asteraceae