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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Heliopsis gracilis   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Heliopsis helianthoides var. gracilis   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

Heliopsis gracilis

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

Heliopsis gracilis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Heliopsis helianthoides var. gracilis

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

Heliopsis minor

 

COMMON NAME:
Smooth Oxeye, Pineywoods Oxeye, Coastal Plain Sunflower-everlasting, Coastal Plain Oxeye


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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Heliopsis gracilis   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Heliopsis helianthoides var. gracilis   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Heliopsis gracilis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Heliopsis helianthoides var. gracilis

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4860

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Moist calcareous forests, loess bluffs, beech-magnolia forests, mesic hammocks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves have petioles.
Margins serrate

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomatous

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Golden yellow
Disc: Pale brownish-yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Achene

 

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