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Habitat: Moist forests, usually with acidic soils
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Leaves parallel-veined, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Flowering plants have a second whorl of 3 smaller leaves, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011).
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Vegetative plants have a single whorl of 5-11 leaves, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011).
Habitat: Dry to mesic forests, rock outcrops
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Unusual for the genus Silene, most of S. stellata's leaves are in whorls of 4, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Habitat: A wide variety of forests and openings, including pine savannas of the outer Coastal Plain, ranging from moist to very dry
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A good opportunity to compare Whorled Coreopsis to Whorled Loosestrife!
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Leaves in whorls of 3-7, usually 4-5, broadly to narrowly lanceolate, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Habitat: Dry woodlands, dry and dry-mesic forests, longleaf pine sandhills, roadsides
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Coreopsis major var. rigida
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Var. major is less common than var. stellata [rigida] and has pubescent stems & leaves, per Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962).
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The opposite paired leaves are so deeply cut they resemble 6 whorled leaves, per Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962).
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Coreopsis major var. major
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The opposite paired leaves are so deeply cut they resemble 6 whorled leaves, per Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962).
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Coreopsis major var. rigida: Stems and leaves glabrous, or essentially so, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).