Verbesina helianthoides

Michaux

Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 135. 1803.

Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 21. Treatment on page 109. Mentioned on page 107.

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

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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

None.

"broader" is not a number.

... more about "Verbesina helianthoides"
not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
connate +  and distinct +
acute;attenuate +
subequal +
scarious +
usually ovate +  and lanceolate +
usually deltate +  and lanceolate +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
John L. Strother +
Michaux +
bristlelike +
subulate +
cuneate +
compound +  and simple +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (12 cm120 mm <br />0.12 m <br />) +
less lanceovate;lanceolate +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
winged;ribbed;winged;ribbed +
tuberculate +  and rugose +
barbellulate +  and barbellate +
dark-brown +  and black +
hairy +  and glabrous +
oblanceolate +  and elliptic +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
Ala. +, Ark. +, Ga. +, Ill. +, Ind. +, Iowa +, Kans. +, Ky. +, La. +, Miss. +, Mo. +, N.C. +, Ohio +, Okla. +, Tenn. +  and Tex. +
70–500 m +
strigillose +  and glabrate +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Moist places in sandy, pine woodlands, post-oak woodlands, disturbed places +
discoid +  and radiate +
in corymbiform , dichasiiform or paniculiform , arrays +  and singly +
indeterminate +
homogamous +  and heterogamous +
each +  and sessile +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
hemispheric +
2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
sessile +  and petiolate +
cauline +  and basal +
less deltate +  and lance-deltate +
dentate to pinnatifid or palmatifid +  and entire +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
Flowering May–Jul. +
16 +  and 21 +
unequal +  and subequal +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
Fl. Bor.-Amer. +
neuter +, styliferous +  and pistillate +
sterile +  and fertile +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
flat;convex or more or less conic +
subulate +
exalbuminous +
appendaged +  and truncate +
hirsutulous +  and glabrous +
papillate +
Undefined (tribe Undefined) subtribe Enceliinae +, Undefined (tribe Undefined) subtribe Engelmanniinae +, Undefined (tribe Undefined) subtribe Spilanthinae +, Undefined (tribe Undefined) subtribe Verbesininae +  and Undefined (tribe Undefined) subtribe Zinniinae +
Verbesina helianthoides +
Verbesina +
species +
campanulate +
cylindric +
shorter to longer than campanulate +
toothed +  and subentire +
perennial +  and annual +
7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br /> (15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br />) +
200 cm2,000 mm <br />2 m <br /> (400 cm4,000 mm <br />4 m <br />) +