Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Helenium amarum
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: HEAMUSDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Helenium amarum
Sneeeze-Weed
Asteraceae
Location: Vacant land W of Nachogdoches Rd. & S of Spring St.--San AntonioLatitude: 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