''Verbesina chapmanii'', commonly known as Chapman's crownbeard, is a

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

in the family

Asteraceae 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 ...

and the genus ''

Verbesina ''Verbesina'', many species of which have crownbeard as part of their common names, is a genus of flowering plants, in the family Asteraceae. It is a large genus of about 350 species. All the species bear white or yellow flowers similar to small ...

''. It is a perennial

dicot The dicotyledons, also known as dicots (or, more rarely, dicotyls), are one of the two groups into which all the flowering plants (angiosperms) were formerly divided. The name refers to one of the typical characteristics of the group: namely, t ...

. It is native to the Florida panhandle, growing in fire prone pine flatwoods. The plant has wingless stems and rough hairy leaves.http://www.fnai.org/FieldGuide/pdf/Verbesina_heterophylla.pdf It can grow up to tall and forms a cypsela fruit. The yellow flowers emerge in June to August.

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Flora of the United States chapmanii {{Heliantheae-stub