Chrysogonum virginianum

Linnaeus

Sp. Pl. 2: 920. 1753.

Common names: Green and gold
IllustratedEndemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 21. Treatment on page 75. Mentioned on page 74.

Leaf blades 2.5–10 cm, faces minutely strigoso-hirsutulous to villoso-hirsute and stipitate-glandular (hairs ca. 0.1 mm). Peduncles 2–22 cm. Paleae ca. 4 mm. Ray corollas 6–17 mm, laminae broadly elliptic, apices 3-toothed. Disc corollas 2.5–2.7 mm. Cypselae 3–4.5 × 2–2.5 mm.

Distribution

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Ala., D.C., Fla., Ga., Ky., La., Md., Miss., N.C., N.Y., Ohio, Pa., S.C., Tenn., Va., W.Va.

Discussion

Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Plants not stoloniferous; earliest flowering stems leafless, later ones leafy and mostly 15–35(–50) cm Chrysogonum virginianum var. virginianum
1 Plants stoloniferous (colonial, mat-forming); flowering stems leafless and/or leafy, leafy stems (2–)15–25 cm > 2
2 Longest stolon internodes 2–6 cm; earliest flowering stems leafless, mostly 2–25 cm (later flowering stems leafy, 15–25 cm) Chrysogonum virginianum var. brevistolon
2 Longest stolon internodes 12–60 cm; earliest (and all other) flowering stems leafless, 2–10 cm Chrysogonum virginianum var. australe
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Guy L. Nesom +
Linnaeus +
Green and gold +
Ala. +, D.C. +, Fla. +, Ga. +, Ky. +, La. +, Md. +, Miss. +, N.C. +, N.Y. +, Ohio +, Pa. +, S.C. +, Tenn. +, Va. +  and W.Va. +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
Undefined (tribe Undefined) subtribe Enceliinae +, Undefined (tribe Undefined) subtribe Engelmanniinae +, Undefined (tribe Undefined) subtribe Spilanthinae +, Undefined (tribe Undefined) subtribe Verbesininae +  and Undefined (tribe Undefined) subtribe Zinniinae +
Chrysogonum virginianum +
Chrysogonum +
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