Native & Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas & Georgia

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917

Forb
Perennial

Native to North Carolina

Documented growing wild in - NC -

Rare

Look for it on sandy or rocky riverbanks, on bog margins, dry slopes over mafic rocks, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & low alternate

FLOWER:
Summer
Disc: Pink
Rays: Absent
Disc flowers bisexual and fertile
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer
Brownish
Achene

 

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
 Marshallia grandiflora   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Marshallia grandiflora   FAMILY Asteraceae__

LESS THAN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 179-72-004:
 Marshallia grandiflora   FAMILY Asteraceae__

 

COMMON NAME:
 Appalachian Barbara's-buttons, Large-flowered Barbara's-buttons

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image of Marshallia grandiflora, Appalachian Barbara's-buttons, Large-flowered Barbara's-buttons

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_magr7_001_lvd