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yellow crownbeard

Lindheimer's crownbeard

Habit Plants 80–200+ cm (perennating bases ± erect, internodes winged). Plants 30–70+ cm (perennating bases ± erect, internodes not winged).
Leaves

all or mostly opposite (distal sometimes alternate);

blades ± ovate or lance-deltate to lanceolate, 6–12(–16+) × 3–6(–10+) cm, bases ± cuneate, margins coarsely toothed to subentire, apices usually acute to attenuate, sometimes rounded, faces scabrellous.

all or mostly opposite (distal sometimes alternate);

blades ovate-deltate or ovate to lance-ovate, 2–6 × 1–5 cm, bases rounded to cuneate, margins toothed to entire, apices obtuse to acute, faces ± scabrellous.

Involucres

campanulate to turbinate, 3–5+ mm diam.

± hemispheric, 15–22+ mm diam.

Ray florets

(0–)1–3(–5);

laminae 10–15(–20+) mm.

± 13;

laminae 25 mm.

Disc florets

8–15+;

corollas yellow.

80–120+;

corollas yellow.

Phyllaries

8–12+ in 2 series, ± erect, spatulate to oblanceolate, 3–7+ mm.

24–30+ in 3–4 series, ± erect, oblong, orbiculate, or ovate, 5–12+ mm.

Heads

20–100+ in corymbiform-paniculiform arrays.

borne singly.

Cypselae

dark brown to black, oblanceolate, 5 mm, faces strigose;

pappi 3–4 mm.

dark brown, narrowly elliptic, 7 mm, faces glabrous;

pappi 0–0.5 mm.

2n

= 34.

= 34.

Verbesina occidentalis

Verbesina lindheimeri

Phenology Flowering Aug–Oct. Flowering (May–)Sep–Nov.
Habitat Bottomlands, margins of thickets, waste places Shaded slopes, limestone, juniper scrublands
Elevation 10–300 m (0–1000 ft) 100–500 m (300–1600 ft)
Distribution
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AL; DC; DE; FL; GA; IL; KY; MD; MO; MS; NC; OH; OK; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV
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TX
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Source FNA vol. 21, p. 109. FNA vol. 21, p. 111.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ecliptinae > Verbesina Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ecliptinae > Verbesina
Sibling taxa
V. alternifolia, V. aristata, V. chapmanii, V. dissita, V. encelioides, V. helianthoides, V. heterophylla, V. lindheimeri, V. longifolia, V. microptera, V. nana, V. oreophila, V. rothrockii, V. virginica, V. walteri
V. alternifolia, V. aristata, V. chapmanii, V. dissita, V. encelioides, V. helianthoides, V. heterophylla, V. longifolia, V. microptera, V. nana, V. occidentalis, V. oreophila, V. rothrockii, V. virginica, V. walteri
Synonyms Siegesbeckia occidentalis
Name authority (Linnaeus) Walter: Fl. Carol., 213. (1788) B. L. Robinson & Greenman: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 34: 541. (1899)
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