Biology:Helenium flexuosum
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
| Helenium flexuosum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Helenium |
| Species: | H. flexuosum
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| Binomial name | |
| Helenium flexuosum Raf. 1838
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Helenium flexuosum is a North American plant species in the daisy family known by the common name purple sneezeweed.[2] It is widespread across much of eastern and central United States and Canada, from Nova Scotia west to Ontario, Minnesota, and Kansas , south to Florida, Louisiana, and eastern Texas .[3]
Helenium flexuosum is a perennial herb up to 100 cm (40 inches) tall. One plant can produce 80 or more flower heads in a branching array. Each head has up to 700 yellow or purple disc florets, sometimes with no ray florets, sometimes with 8-13 yellow, red, purple, or brown ray florets. The species grows in fields, ditches, and streambanks.[2]
References
External links
- United States Department of Agriculture Plants Profile
- Photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Missouri in 1988
- Illinois Wildflowers
- Connecticut Botanical Society
- Illinois Natural History Survey
Wikidata ☰ Q5703943 entry
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