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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Pseudognaphalium helleri
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Heller's Rabbit Tobacco at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pseudognaphalium helleri ssp. helleri
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Pseudognaphalium helleri ssp. helleri
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Pseudognaphalium helleri
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-40-002:
Gnaphalium helleri FAMILY Asteraceae__
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Gnaphalium helleri
COMMON NAME:
Heller's Rabbit-tobacco
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_gnhe_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Pseudognaphalium helleri
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pseudognaphalium helleri ssp. helleri
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Pseudognaphalium helleri ssp. helleri
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Pseudognaphalium helleri
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-40-002:
Gnaphalium helleri
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Gnaphalium helleri
2222
Forb
Annual
Habitat: Dry woodlands and openings (especially over mafic rocks), longleaf pine sandhills, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Rare
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, often also basal
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Disc: Whitish/Pinkish
Rays: Absent
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005) p090
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p118
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p108
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p298
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p347
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