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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Packera paupercula var. paupercula FAMILY Asteraceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Packera at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Packera paupercula FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Packera paupercula

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-19-006:

Senecio pauperculus FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Senecio pauperculus

COMMON NAME:
Balsam Groundsel, Balsam Ragwort, Northern Meadow Groundsel

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image of Packera paupercula var. paupercula, Balsam Groundsel, Balsam Ragwort, Northern Meadow Groundsel

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_sepa5_001_lvd

Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_senecio_pauperculus_2

April

Heads few, generally 5-20, per Weakley's Flora (2012).

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Packera paupercula var. paupercula FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Packera paupercula FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Packera paupercula

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-19-006:
Senecio pauperculus FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Senecio pauperculus

3395

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Thickets, meadows, glades, generally over circumneutral soils derived from calcareous or mafic rocks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina & Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile

FRUIT:
Spring
Brown
Achene

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"Invasive exotics share several strong traits: fit well within the environment, grow rapidly, mature to produce flowers and seed at an early age, produce great quantities of seed, effectively disperse their seed (via birds, etc.), rampantly spread vegetatively, have no major pest of disease problems. Horticulturally, some of these characteristics are considered quite desirable. Thus there is the absurd irony of various governmental and environmental groups trying hard to control and eradicate in the wild some of the very same species being sold to gardeners all over the US...." — Margie Hunter, Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee

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