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Common name: starry rosinweed
 
==Description==  
 
==Description==  
 
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Common name: starry rosinweed
 
  
 
==Distribution==
 
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==Photo Gallery==
 
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==References and notes==
 
==References and notes==
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*Gee, K. L. (1994). White-tailed deer : their foods and management in the cross timbers. Ardmore, OK, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation.
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*Gee, K. L. (1994). White-tailed deer : their foods and management in the cross timbers. Ardmore, OK, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation.
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*Miller, J. H., R. S. Boyd, et al. (1999). "Floristic diversity, stand structure, and composition 11 years after herbicide site preparation." Canadian Journal of Forest Research 29: 1073-1083.
 
*Miller, J. H., R. S. Boyd, et al. (1999). "Floristic diversity, stand structure, and composition 11 years after herbicide site preparation." Canadian Journal of Forest Research 29: 1073-1083.
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*Strong, A. B. (1848). The American flora, or history of plants and wildflowers: containing a systematic and general decription, natural history, chemical and medical properties of over six thousand plants, accompanied with a circumstantial detail of the medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed. New York City, NY, Green & Spencer.
 
*Strong, A. B. (1848). The American flora, or history of plants and wildflowers: containing a systematic and general decription, natural history, chemical and medical properties of over six thousand plants, accompanied with a circumstantial detail of the medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed. New York City, NY, Green & Spencer.

Revision as of 13:21, 12 August 2015

Silphium asteriscus
Silphium asteriscus Gil.jpg
Photo taken by Gil Nelson
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae ⁄ Compositae
Genus: Silphium
Species: S. asteriscus
Binomial name
Silphium asteriscus
L.
SILP ASTE dist.jpg
Natural range of Silphium asteriscus from USDA NRCS Plants Database.

Common name: starry rosinweed

Description

Distribution

Ecology

wooded-open ecotones of Cross Timbers that include oaks, ashes, elms, hickories (Gee et al 1994). Seen within their study plots of Midland Plateau Central Highlands where the surface soil texture is sandy clay loam with a clay subsoil; Hilly Coastal Plain and the Upper Loam Hills where the surface soils are loamy sands and the subsoils are sandy clay loams (Miller, Boyd, Edwards 1999).

Habitat

Phenology

“Hairy-stalked Silphium. This species has a perennial root; the stem four or five feet high, thick, solid, set with prickly hairs, and having many purple spots; the lower leaves alternate-upper opposite and sessile, rough, about two inches long, and an inch broad near the base, having a few slight indentures on their edges; the upper part of the stem divides into five or six small branches, terminated by yellow radiated flowers like those of the perennial Sun-flower, but smaller, having generally nine florets in the ray. Native of North America, flowering from July to September.” – Strong et al 1848 page 171

Seed dispersal

Seed bank and germination

Fire ecology

It resprouts and flowers within two months of burning in the spring (Robertson observation).

Pollination

Use by animals

It is included in white-tailed deer diets in Cross Timbers ecosystem in Texas (Gee et al 1994).

Diseases and parasites

Conservation and Management

Cultivation and restoration

Photo Gallery

References and notes

  • Gee, K. L. (1994). White-tailed deer : their foods and management in the cross timbers. Ardmore, OK, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation.
  • Miller, J. H., R. S. Boyd, et al. (1999). "Floristic diversity, stand structure, and composition 11 years after herbicide site preparation." Canadian Journal of Forest Research 29: 1073-1083.
  • Strong, A. B. (1848). The American flora, or history of plants and wildflowers: containing a systematic and general decription, natural history, chemical and medical properties of over six thousand plants, accompanied with a circumstantial detail of the medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed. New York City, NY, Green & Spencer.