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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Packera crawfordii
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Read more about Bog Ragwort at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Packera paupercula
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Packera crawfordii
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Packera paupercula
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-19-006?:
Senecio pauperculus FAMILY Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Senecio crawfordii
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Senecio pauperculus
COMMON NAME:
Bog Ragwort, Crawford's Groundsel, Crawford’s Ragwort
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_secr6_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Packera crawfordii
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Packera paupercula
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Packera crawfordii
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Packera paupercula
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-19-006?:
Senecio pauperculus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Senecio crawfordii
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Senecio pauperculus
3493
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: bogs, fens, calcareous longleaf pine savannas, per Weakley's Flora
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Rare
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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate
FLOWER:
Spring
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
FRUIT:
Spring
Brown
Achene
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