Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Heliopsis helianthoides var. helianthoides
FAMILY
Asteraceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Heliopsis at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Heliopsis helianthoides var. helianthoides
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-58-001:
Heliopsis helianthoides
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
False Sunflower, Eastern Oxeye, Eastern Sunflower-everlasting, Smooth Oxeye
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July Jackson County NC
Balsam Mountain Preserve
Note developing ovary: In contrast to Helianthus, the rays are fertile.
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July Jackson County NC
Balsam Mountain Preserve
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July Jackson County NC
Balsam Mountain Preserve
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July Jackson County NC
Balsam Mountain Preserve
Leaves ovate, toothed, long-stalked, and all opposite, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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July Jackson County NC
Balsam Mountain Preserve
Leaf underside is glabrous and a lustrous green.
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July Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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July Haywood County NC
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August Haywood County NC
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August Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Flower heads about 2" wide, with a yellow conical disk and about 12 rays, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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August Haywood County NC
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Bracts oblong, glabrous, cartilaginous w foliaceous, often spreading, apices, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of DYCs with ray and disc flowers
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August Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Involucres hemispheric, 6-10mm long and 1-2.5cm broad, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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August Haywood County NC
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The ray's 2-pronged style indicates a fertile rather than a neutral flower, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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August Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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August Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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August Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Heliopsis helianthoides var. helianthoides
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Heliopsis helianthoides var. helianthoides
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-58-001:
Heliopsis helianthoides
FAMILY
Asteraceae
656
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Look for it in forests, woodlands, woodland borders, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Variable
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p390
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p300
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p121
- Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p199
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p270
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p306
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p355
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p193