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Internal ID UUID643fca477416a790729920
Scientific name Helianthus carnosus
Authority Small
First published in Torreya 2: 74 (1902)

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It is threatened by habitat destruction.

Helianthus carnosus is a rare North American species of sunflower found only in the northeastern part of the state of Florida. It is a perennial herb up to 2 feet tall with evergreen leaves up to 10 inches long. It usually produces only one flower head, rarely 2 or 3, with 12-17 yellow ray florets surrounding 100 or more yellow disc florets. It grows in wet sites in prairies in coastal beach sands at low elevations, but is threatened by habitat destruction.

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English lakeside sunflower
Arabic دوار الشمس المبهرج

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000037051
Florida Plant Atlas 1115
USDA Plants HECA14
Tropicos 2710390
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:119075-2
The Plant List gcc-135830
Open Tree Of Life 769548
NCBI Taxonomy 73279
Nature Serve 2.148293
IPNI 119075-2
iNaturalist 163612
GBIF 3119193
EOL 468126
USDA GRIN 104285
Wikipedia Helianthus_carnosus

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