653

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common (rare in Coastal Plain)

Look for it in woodlands & roadsides, per Weakley's Flora

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...Variable

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite, sometimes alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate but sterile
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Achene

 

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

• All About South Carolina Wildflowers p172
• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p388
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p123
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p302
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p351
• Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p382
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p192

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Helianthus strumosus   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Helianthus strumosus   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 179-65-019:
Helianthus strumosus   FAMILY Asteraceae