OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Helianthus simulans   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Helianthus simulans   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Helianthus simulans

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Helianthus simulans

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Helianthus simulans

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Helianthus simulans

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Helianthus simulans

 

COMMON NAME:
Muck Sunflower


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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Helianthus simulans   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Helianthus simulans   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Helianthus simulans

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Helianthus simulans

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Helianthus simulans

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Helianthus simulans

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Helianthus simulans

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4859

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Wet soils, ditches, roadsides, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Coastal Plain of SC & GA (naturalized elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Lower opposite, upper alternate ?

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomatous, forming clonal colonies

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

FRUIT:
Achene

 

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