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*[http://www.tropicos.org/ImageFullView.aspx?imageid=3693 photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Georgia in 1846, isotype of ''Rudbeckia porteri/Viguiera porteri/Helianthus porteri'']
*[http://www.tropicos.org/ImageFullView.aspx?imageid=3693 photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Georgia in 1846, isotype of ''Rudbeckia porteri/Viguiera porteri/Helianthus porteri'']
*[http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/content/104/3/407.full.pdf Scott D. Gevaert, Jennifer R. Mandel, John M. Burke, and Lisa A. Donovan. 2013. High Genetic Diversity and Low Population Structure in Porter’s Sunflower ''(Helianthus porteri).'' Journal of Heredity 2013:104(3):407–415] doi:10.1093/jhered/est009
*[http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/content/104/3/407.full.pdf Scott D. Gevaert, Jennifer R. Mandel, John M. Burke, and Lisa A. Donovan. 2013. High Genetic Diversity and Low Population Structure in Porter’s Sunflower ''(Helianthus porteri).'' Journal of Heredity 2013:104(3):407–415] doi:10.1093/jhered/est009

Revision as of 01:39, 7 September 2015

Confederate daisy
Helianthus porteri on Stone Mtn.
Scientific classification
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H. porteri
Binomial name
Helianthus porteri
(A.Gray) Pruski 1998 not (A.Gray) Heiser 1978 (1978 name not validly published)
Synonyms[1]
  • Gymnolomia porteri (A.Gray) A.Gray
  • Heliomeris porteri (A.Gray) Cockerell
  • Rudbeckia porteri A.Gray
  • Viguiera porteri (A.Gray) S.F.Blake

Helianthus porteri is a species of sunflower known by the common names Porter's sunflower[2] and Confederate daisy. It is native to the southeastern (Georgia, Alabama, and the Carolinas).[3]

Helianthus porteri grows on granite hillsides. It is an annual herb up to 100 cm (40 inches) tall. One plant usually produces 5 or more flower heads, each containing 7 or 8 yellow ray florets surrounding 30 or more yellow disc florets.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ The Plant List, Helianthus porteri (A.Gray) Pruski
  2. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Helianthus porteri". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  3. ^ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  4. ^ Flora of North America, Helianthus porteri (A. Gray) Pruski, 1998. Confederate daisy
  5. ^ Blake, Sydney Fay 1918. Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University 54: 114–115, as Viguiera porteri

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