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Helenium amarum
Bitterweed
Spanish Daisy
Sneezeweed
Florida native
These photos were taken July 22, 2006 at Lyonia Preserve in a scrub/disturbed habitat (along a fence row between a sand road and the powerline right-of-way).
This plant was about 30 inches high, with a branching, glabrous, vertically ribbed stem. The alternate leaves are linear ranging from 3 to 5.5 cm long and 2-3 mm wide. The entire flower head was about 2cm wide, the yellow disk about 1 cm in diameter. The disk was surrounded by 13 small yellow parts - possibly not yet developed ray flowers?
Helenium amarum is a member of the Asteraceae - Aster family.
Other species of the Helenium genus in the Wild Florida Photo database:
Helenium flexuosum - PURPLEHEAD SNEEZEWEED
Helenium pinnatifidum - SOUTHEASTERN SNEEZEWEED
Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants (Institute for Systemic Botany) profile for this species
USDA Plant Profile for this species
Date record last modified: Jul 29, 2017
