''Helenium drummondii'' is a species of
perennial plant
A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years. The term ('' per-'' + '' -ennial'', "through the years") is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annuals and biennials. The term is also wide ...
in the
Sunflower Family, commonly known as fringed sneezeweed.
[ It is native to the south- central United States, in eastern ]Texas
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, Arkansas
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, and Louisiana
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.Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
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''Helenium drummondii'' is an perennial herb up to 60 cm (2 feet) tall. Leaves are long, thin, and grass-like. One plant can usually produce only 1-3 flower heads
A pseudanthium (Greek for "false flower"; ) is an inflorescence that resembles a flower. The word is sometimes used for other structures that are neither a true flower nor a true inflorescence. Examples of pseudanthia include flower heads, compos ...
. The head is spherical or hemispherical, with sometimes as many as 1000 yellow disc floret
The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...
s, plus 13-30 yellow ray florets
The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...
. The species grows in bogs, swamps, and other wet places.[Flora of North America, Helenium drummondii H. Rock, 1957. Fringed sneezeweed ]
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References
External links
Photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Texas in 1872, isotype of ''Helenium drummondii''
Flora of the Southern United States
Plants described in 1903
drummondii
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