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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Acmella repens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Read more about Creeping Spotflower at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Acmella oppositifolia var. repens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Acmella repens
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Acmella repens
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-63-001:
Spilanthes americana var. repens FAMILY Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Spilanthes americana
COMMON NAME:
Spilanthes, Creeping Spotflower
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_spam3_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Acmella repens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Acmella oppositifolia var. repens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Acmella repens
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Acmella repens
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-63-001:
Spilanthes americana var. repens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Spilanthes americana
1452
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Floating vegetation mats, blackwater levee and swamp forests, roadsides, streambanks, other moist, open, habitats, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in GA Coastal Plain, uncommon in SC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Black
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p304
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p462
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p272?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p320
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