Helenium flexuosum
| Helenium flexuosum | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Spermatophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Helenium |
| Species: | H. flexuosum |
| Binomial name | |
| Helenium flexuosum Raf. 1838 | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Helenium flexuosum is a North American plant species in the daisy family known by the common name purple sneezeweed or southern sneezeweed.[3] It is widespread across much of eastern and central United States and Canada, from Nova Scotia west to Ontario, Minnesota, and Kansas, south to Florida, Louisiana, and eastern Texas.[4]
Description
[edit]Helenium flexuosum is a perennial herb up to 100 cm (40 inches) tall. One plant can produce 80 or more flower heads in a branching array. Each head has up to 700 yellow or purple disc florets, sometimes with no ray florets, sometimes with 8-13 yellow, red, purple, or brown ray florets. The species grows in fields, ditches, and streambanks.[3]
Gallery
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References
[edit]- ↑ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org.
- ↑ The Plant List, Helenium flexuosum Raf.
- 1 2 "Helenium flexuosum in Flora of North America @ efloras.org". www.efloras.org. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
External links
[edit]- United States Department of Agriculture Plants Profile
- Photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Missouri in 1988
- Illinois Wildflowers
- Connecticut Botanical Society[dead link]
- Illinois Natural History Survey Archived 2015-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
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