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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Packera aurea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Read more about Golden Ragwort at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Packera aurea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Packera aurea
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-19-008:
Senecio aureus FAMILY Asteraceae
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Senecio aureus
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Senecio gracilis
COMMON NAME:
Golden Ragwort, Heartleaf Ragwort, Golden Groundsel
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA Forest Service / A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia. 1969 mpa_page_235
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_paau3_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_seau2_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm190202_6376
February Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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JK Marlow jkm190305_6641
March Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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JK Marlow jkm190305_6646
March Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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JK Marlow jkm230325_2030
March Pickens County SC
Laurel Fork Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm230325_2031
March Pickens County SC
Laurel Fork Heritage Preserve
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Alan S. Weakley asw_943345663504340
April Orange County NC
North Carolina Botanical Garden
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JK Marlow jkm0404c_0607
April Haywood County NC
Roadside
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JK Marlow jkm080421_097
April Haywood County NC
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JK Marlow jkm080421_110
April Haywood County NC
Heads several, in open clusters on slender stalks, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm140411_873
April Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm140418_262
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
10-12 ray flowers, 0.25-0.5" long. Disk 0.2-0.5" wide, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm170414_607
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm200403_3445
April Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
Phyllaries green (the tips purple or black), per Flora of North America.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of DYCs
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JK Marlow jkm200403_3447
April Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
Involucres narrowly campanulate, bracts in 1 series, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm200403_3450
April Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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JK Marlow jkm200403_3454
April Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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JK Marlow jkm200409_3638
April Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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JK Marlow jkm210413_9476
April Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm210413_9482
April Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm210413_9486
April Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm210413_9487
April Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm210423_9718
April Transylvania County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm210423_9725
April Transylvania County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow s040404_bc
April Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Base of basal leaves cordate or truncate; leaf undersides often purple, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm0405m_36
May Sevier County TN
Roadside
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JK Marlow jkm060508_168
May Macon County NC
Nantahala National Forest: Wayah Ranger District
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JK Marlow jkm070518_100
May Avery County NC
Grandfather Mountain
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JK Marlow jkm080503_036
May Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
Fruits brownish cylindric achenes; pappus a tuft of white bristles, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm150505_914
May Jackson County NC
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JK Marlow jkm200525_5279
May Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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JK Marlow s040503_fg
May Sevier County TN
Roadside
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Keith Bradley kab_packera_aurea_9282
June Madison County VA
Shenandoah National Park
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JK Marlow jkm210903_3316
September Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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JK Marlow jkm181106_5654
November Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Packera aurea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Packera aurea
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Packera aurea
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-19-008:
Senecio aureus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Senecio aureus
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Senecio gracilis
1358
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Moist forests, bottomlands, bogs, stream banks, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p255
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p112
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p170
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962) p062
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p378
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p303
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p130
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest: Northeastern US (Clemants & Gracie, 2006) p218
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p104
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p323
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p373
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p198
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