''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

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to the Carolinas. ''Helenium vernale'' is a perennial herb up to 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 across, yellow at the base, yellow or yellow-brown near the tips. There are also 13–30 yellow

ray flowers 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 ...

.Flora of North America, ''Helenium vernale'' Walter, 1788. Savanna or spring sneezeweed
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Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, University of TexasSoutheastern Flora
vernale Flora of the Southeastern United States Plants described in 1788 Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Helenieae-stub