North Carolina Wildflowers, Shrubs, & Trees
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Asteraceae > Bigelowia (rayless-goldenrod) |
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Pineland Rayless-Goldenrod (Bigelowia nudata)
Pine savannah in Pender Co., NC
13 Sep 2009Common in the Carolina coastal plain in and near pine and pocosin edge habitats. Formerly classified as Chondrophora nudata. |
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Pineland Rayless-Goldenrod (Bigelowia nudata)
Pine savannah in Pender Co., NC
13 Sep 2009Flowers are composed of all disk flowers and no ray flowers, hence the common name. |
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Pineland Rayless-Goldenrod (Bigelowia nudata)
Pine savannah in Pender Co., NC
13 Sep 2009Leaves are highly reduced. |
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Pineland Rayless-Goldenrod (Bigelowia nudata)
Pine savannah in Pender Co., NC
13 Sep 2009Basal leaves (brownish and fading here) are wider in this species than in the other species of Bigelowia found farther south in GA. |
Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; Alan Weakley's Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Supplemental resources include USDA plants website, and NatureServe.
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