Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Heliopsis gracilis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Heliopsis helianthoides var. gracilis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Heliopsis gracilis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Heliopsis gracilis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Heliopsis helianthoides var. gracilis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Heliopsis minor
COMMON NAME:
Smooth Oxeye, Pineywoods Oxeye, Coastal Plain Sunflower-everlasting, Coastal Plain Oxeye
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Heliopsis gracilis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Heliopsis helianthoides var. gracilis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Heliopsis gracilis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Heliopsis gracilis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Heliopsis helianthoides var. gracilis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Heliopsis minor
4860
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Moist calcareous forests, loess bluffs, beech-magnolia forests, mesic hammocks, per Weakley's Flora
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Rare
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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves have petioles.
Margins serrate
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomatous
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Golden yellow
Disc: Pale brownish-yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Achene
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