Flora of North America species comparison

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Verbesina alternifolia

wingstem, wingstem crownbeard
Habit Plants (30–)100–200+ cm (perennating bases ± erect or horizontal rhizomes, internodes winged, at least proximal).
Leaves

all or mostly alternate (proximal sometimes opposite);

blades lance-elliptic or lanceolate to lance-linear, 10–25+ × 2–8+ cm, bases narrowly cuneate, margins coarsely toothed to subentire, apices attenuate, faces scabrellous.
Involucres

± saucerlike, 10–12+ mm diam.
Ray florets

(2–)6–8+;

laminae 15–25+ mm.
Disc florets

40–60+;

corollas yellow.
Phyllaries

8–12+ in 1(–2) series, ± spreading to reflexed, spatulate or lance-linear to linear, 3–8+ mm.
Heads

(3–)8–25(–50+) in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays.
Cypselae

dark brown to black, oblanceolate to ± orbiculate, 4.5–5 mm, faces sparsely hirtellous to glabrate;

pappi 1.5–2 mm.
2n

= 68.

Verbesina alternifolia
Phenology Flowering Aug–Oct.
Habitat Alluvial flats, along streams, woodlands
Elevation 10–600 m (0–2000 ft)
Distribution
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AL; AR; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MD; MI; MO; MS; NC; NE; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; TN; TX; VA; WI; WV; ON
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Discussion

Verbesina alternifolia may be no longer present in Delaware.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 21, p. 108.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ecliptinae > Verbesina
Sibling taxa
V. aristata, V. chapmanii, V. dissita, V. encelioides, V. helianthoides, V. heterophylla, V. lindheimeri, V. longifolia, V. microptera, V. nana, V. occidentalis, V. oreophila, V. rothrockii, V. virginica, V. walteri
Synonyms Coreopsis alternifolia
Name authority (Linnaeus) Britton ex Kearney: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 20: 485. (1893)
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