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Helianthus carnosus
Also called Fleshy Sunflower, Flatwoods Sunflower
Lakeside sunflower is a rare perennial herb native only to northeastern Florida, growing up to about 60 cm with a single yellow flower head per stem. It needs wet, sandy coastal sites and is best kept where it can stay consistently moist.
Helianthus carnosus is a rare North American species of sunflower known by the common names lakeside sunflower and flatwoods sunflower. It is found only in the northeastern part of the state of Florida in the United States.
Helianthus carnosus is a perennial herb up to 60 cm (2 feet) tall. Most of the leaves are close to the base of the stem, each leaf hairless, evergreen, up to 25 cm (10 inches) long. There are only a few small leaves on the stem, the only species in Florida with that characteristic. One plant usually produces only one flower head, rarely 2 or 3. Each head has with 12-17 yellow ray florets surrounding 100 or more yellow disc florets. The plant grows in wet sites in prairies in coastal beach sands at low elevations.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Helianthus carnosus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
