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Savannah sneezeweed

Helenium vernale

Also called Savanna Sneezeweed

Savannah sneezeweed
Photo: paulsmithrj, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
SE. U.S.A.

About

Helenium vernale is a North American species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name Savanna sneezeweed or spring sneezeweed. It is native to the southeastern United States, from Louisiana to the Carolinas.

Helenium vernale is a perennial herb up to 80 cm (31.5 in) tall, with small wings running down the sides of the stem. One plant generally produces only 1–3 hemispherical flower heads, each on its own flower stalk. Each head can contain up to 800 minuscule disc flowers, each 4.6–6.0 mm (0.18–0.24 in) across, yellow at the base, yellow or yellow-brown near the tips. There are also 13–30 yellow ray flowers.

Other Helenium plants

Yellowdicks · Helenium apterum · Helenium argentinum · Arizona sneezeweed · Helenium aromaticum · Common sneezeweed · Bigelow's sneezeweed · Coastal sneezeweed · Shortleaf sneezeweed · Oldfield sneezeweed · Helenium chihuahuensis · Fringed sneezeweed

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Helenium vernale by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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