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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Emilia fosbergii   FAMILY Asteraceae__   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Emilia fosbergii   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Emilia fosbergii

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Emilia fosbergii

 

COMMON NAME:
Salmon Tasselflower, Cupid’s-shaving-brush


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image of Emilia fosbergii, Salmon Tasselflower, Cupid’s-shaving-brush

Keith Bradley    kab_e_fosbergii_76752

July    Miami-Dade County    FL

Corollas salmon or red-orange; involucre 1-2(-3)x as high as wide, per Weakley's Flora (2015).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Emilia fosbergii   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Emilia fosbergii   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Emilia fosbergii

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Emilia fosbergii

 

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3945

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Disturbed areas, flower beds, landscaping, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Old World tropics

Rare in GA (waifs in the Carolinas)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly alternate
Leaves sessile and auriculate to winged-petiolate and clasping

FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Disc: Salmon or red-orange
Rays: Absent
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual and fertile (or inner functionally staminate)

FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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