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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Euthamia leptocephala
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Euthamia leptocephala
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Euthamia leptocephala
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Solidago leptocephala
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Euthamia leptocephala
COMMON NAME:
Narrowhead Goldentop, Mississippi Valley Flat-topped Goldenrod
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_eule4_001_lvd
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_e_leptocephala_crop
September
Involucres cylindric, 0.2" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_e_leptocephala_crop_2
September
Flower heads small, numerous, in a flat-topped corymb, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_e_leptocephala_crop2b
September
Leaves 10-20x long as wide, 1-3 nerved, inconspicuously resin-dotted, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Euthamia leptocephala
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Euthamia leptocephala
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Euthamia leptocephala
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Solidago leptocephala
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Euthamia leptocephala
3622
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Fields, pastures, roadsides, prairies, savannas, per Weakley's Flora
Native to Georgia
Rare in GA
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LEAVES:
Simple
Leaves chiefly on the stem (basal & lower stem leaves either withering early or equal/smaller than middle & upper stem leaves)
Alternate
Leaves sessile
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads in rounded corymbose inflorescences
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p112
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p297
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p346
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