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

 

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

• Gardening with Native Plants of the South p162
• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p202
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p315
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p365

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__