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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Euthamia graminifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Read more about Grassleaf Flattop Goldenrod at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Euthamia graminifolia var. graminifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Euthamia graminifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-036:
Solidago graminifolia FAMILY Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Euthamia graminifolia
COMMON NAME:
Northern Smooth Goldentop, Grassleaf Flattop Goldenrod
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Euthamia graminifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Euthamia graminifolia var. graminifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Euthamia graminifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-49-036:
Solidago graminifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Euthamia graminifolia
4276
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Moist to dry weedy situations, riverbanks, bottomlands, bog margins, per Weakley's Flora
Native to Carolina Mountains (SC Coastal Plain report is probably introduced)
Rare
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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 flat corymbose inflorescences
FRUIT:
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p279
- 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
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p206
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