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Helenium amarum (Raf.) H. Rock

Yellow Sneezeweed, Bitterweed, Yellow bitterweed, Yellowdicks, Slender-leaved sneezeweed, Fine-leaved sneezweed, Yellow dog-fennel
Asteraceae (Aster Family)

USDA Symbol: HEAM
USDA Native Status: Native to U.S.

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Specimen & Label Data

Helenium amarum

Sneeeze-Weed

Asteraceae

Location: Vacant land W of Nachogdoches Rd. & S of Spring St.--San Antonio
 Latitude: 0.000000

Habitat: Open, level, grassy area w/many other herbaceous species. This one in many extensive colonies.

Description: Erect, much branched annual to 40+ cm tall. Taproot short. Leaves alternate, strictly linear, to 8 cm long. Heads numerous, terminal. Disk & ray flowers yellow. Plant odoriferous/bitter. Rays 13-14, blunt, 3-toothed.

County: Bexar
 Collector: Harry Cliffe
 Collection Date: May 11, 1990
 Specimen number: 394

Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
 Herbarium ID: 0585
 Accession Date: Nov 23, 1993
 Accession Number: 44

Annotations: SCXRB

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