Verbesina helianthoides
Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 135. 1803.
Plants 60–120+ cm (perennating bases ± erect or horizontal rhizomes, internodes winged). Leaves all or mostly alternate (proximal sometimes opposite); blades ± lanceovate to lanceolate, 5–12+ × 2–5+ cm, bases ± cuneate, margins ± toothed, apices acute to attenuate, faces strigose to sericeous. Heads 2–5 (–10+) in ± corymbiform arrays. Involucres ± hemispheric, 10–15+ mm diam. Phyllaries 16–21+ in 2–3 series, ± erect, lanceolate, 6–9+ mm. Ray-florets 8–13+; laminae 20–25 (–30+) mm. Disc-florets 40–80+; corollas yellow. Cypselae dark-brown to black, oblanceolate to elliptic, 5 mm, faces strigillose to glabrate; pappi 0.5–1.5 mm. 2n = 34.
Phenology: Flowering May–Jul.
Habitat: Moist places in sandy, pine woodlands, post-oak woodlands, disturbed places
Elevation: 70–500 m
Distribution
Ala., Ark., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kans., Ky., La., Miss., Mo., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Tenn., Tex.
Discussion
Verbesina helianthoides may be no longer present in Georgia.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
"broader" is not a number.