Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Gaillardia aestivalis var. flavovirens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gaillardia aestivalis var. aestivalis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Gaillardia aestivalis var. aestivalis
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Gaillardia aestivalis
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Gaillardia aestivalis var. aestivalis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Gaillardia chrysantha
COMMON NAME:
Yellow Sandhill Gaillardia, Yellow Prairie Gaillardia
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Gaillardia aestivalis var. flavovirens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gaillardia aestivalis var. aestivalis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Gaillardia aestivalis var. aestivalis
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Gaillardia aestivalis
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Gaillardia aestivalis var. aestivalis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Gaillardia chrysantha
3159
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, sandy prairies, per Weakley's Flora
Native west of the Carolinas & Georgia, maybe to Georgia
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow, sometimes absent
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual/ Ray flowers sterile
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p172
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p129?
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