North Carolina Wildflowers, Shrubs, & Trees

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Asteraceae > Verbesina (wingstem, crownbeard, froststem)
	Yellow Crownbeard, Southern Crownbeard (Verbesina occidentalis) Orange Co., NC 21 Sep 2006 Statewide and common in NC along roadsides and forest edges.
	Yellow Crownbeard, Southern Crownbeard (Verbesina occidentalis) Orange Co., NC 21 Sep 2006 Note the presence of relatively few ray flowers.
	Yellow Crownbeard, Southern Crownbeard (Verbesina occidentalis) Orange Co., NC 21 Sep 2006
	Yellow Crownbeard, Southern Crownbeard (Verbesina occidentalis) Orange Co., NC 21 Sep 2006 The stem is strongly winged.
	Yellow Crownbeard, Southern Crownbeard (Verbesina occidentalis) Orange Co., NC 21 Sep 2006 Yellow Crownbeard can form fairly large clusters.

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.