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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Bigelowia nuttallii   FAMILY Asteraceae__   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bigelowia nuttallii   FAMILY Asteraceae__

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

Bigelowia nuttallii

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

Bigelowia nuttallii

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas (Correll & Johnston, 1970)

Bigelowia virgata

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

Chondrophora virgata

 

COMMON NAME:
Nuttall's Rayless-goldenrod, Glade Rayless-goldenrod, West Gulf Coastal Plain Rayless-goldenrod


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image of Bigelowia nuttallii, Nuttall's Rayless-goldenrod, Glade Rayless-goldenrod, West Gulf Coastal Plain Rayless-goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm110416_691

April    Etowah County    AL

image of Bigelowia nuttallii, Nuttall's Rayless-goldenrod, Glade Rayless-goldenrod, West Gulf Coastal Plain Rayless-goldenrod

JK Marlow    jkm110416_712

April    Etowah County    AL

image of Bigelowia nuttallii, Nuttall's Rayless-goldenrod, Glade Rayless-goldenrod, West Gulf Coastal Plain Rayless-goldenrod

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_b_nuttallii_cropped

September        

Heads discoid (in glomerate clusters) in flat-topped corymbiform arrays, per Flora of North America.

image of Bigelowia nuttallii, Nuttall's Rayless-goldenrod, Glade Rayless-goldenrod, West Gulf Coastal Plain Rayless-goldenrod

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_b_nuttallii_cropped_2

October        

Basal leaves many, 1-2mm wide; plants strongly rhizomatous and colonial, per Weakley's Flora.

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Bigelowia nuttallii   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Bigelowia nuttallii   FAMILY Asteraceae__

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Bigelowia nuttallii

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas (Correll & Johnston, 1970)
Bigelowia virgata

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3446

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Prairies, sandstone glades, granite flatrocks, Altamaha Grit glades, and roadbanks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Disc: Yellow
Rays: Absent
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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