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Verbesina walteri

Carolina crownbeard
Habit Plants 100–400 cm (perennating bases ± erect, internodes winged, at least proximal).
Leaves

all or mostly alternate (proximal usually opposite);

blades lance-elliptic to lanceolate or lance-linear, 10–20 × 2–7 cm, bases ± cuneate, margins coarsely toothed to subentire, apices acute, faces ± hirtellous.
Involucres

± saucerlike, 8–10 mm diam.
Ray florets

0.
Disc florets

40–60+;

corollas ochroleucous to white.
Phyllaries

12–15+ in 1–2 series, ± spreading, oblanceolate to linear, 2–5+ mm.
Heads

8–35+ in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays.
Cypselae

dark brown to blackish, obovate, 3–4.5+ mm, faces ± strigillose;

pappi 1–2 mm (sometimes shorter scales between awns).
2n

= 34.

Verbesina walteri
Phenology Flowering Aug–Sep.
Habitat Bottomlands, flood plains, borders of woodlands
Elevation 10–300 m (0–1000 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; AR; GA; LA; NC; OK; SC; TX
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Discussion

Verbesina virginica may be no longer present in Georgia and North Carolina.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 21, p. 107.
Parent taxa 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. occidentalis, V. oreophila, V. rothrockii, V. virginica
Synonyms Athanasia paniculata
Name authority Shinners: Sida 1: 253. (1964)
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