619

Forb
Perennial

Non-native: South America

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common

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

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette & alternate

FLOWER:
Summer
Disc: Whitish/Pinkish
Rays: Absent
Bisexual
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer
Yellowish-brown/Reddish-brown
Achene

 

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

• Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p226
• Weeds of Southern Turfgrasses p101

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Gamochaeta coarctata   FAMILY Asteraceae__

INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gamochaeta americana   FAMILY Asteraceae__

INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-40-004d:
Gnaphalium purpureum var. americanum   FAMILY Asteraceae__