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Florida State University Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium database. URL: [http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu]. Last accessed:  Collectors:    States and Counties:    Compiled by Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy.

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

Common name: white crownbeard

Taxonomic notes

Description

A description of Verbesina virginica is provided in The Flora of North America.

Distribution

Ecology

Habitat

Verbesina virginica can be found in sandy loams of mixed hardwoods; floodplains; mixed oak-pine woodlands; live oak woods; sandy dunes; slash pinewoods; open calcareous bluffs; scrubs; mesic woodlands of shallow ravines; clay soils of mixed hardwood/cabbage palm communities; calcareous banks of rivers; deciduous upland woods; wet hammocks; swamps; near brackish water; wooded pasture with exposed limestone; low swamp with alluvial soil; pine-oak-hickory woodlands; limestone glades; cedar glade near shallow stream; and wet pine flatwoods (FSU Herbarium).

Associated species include Melanthera nivea, Myrica cerifera, Baccharis, Polymnia, Sabal, Quercus, Schinus, Desmodium ochroleucum, D. rotundifolium Rhynchosia, Rhus aromatica, Polymnia uvedalia, Melanthera nivea, and Calyptocarpus (FSU Herbarium).

Phenology

Flowers March through December and fruits September through November (FSU Herbarium).

Seed dispersal

Seed bank and germination

Fire ecology

Pollination

Use by animals

Diseases and parasites

Conservation and Management

Cultivation and restoration

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References and notes

Florida State University Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium database. URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: Collectors: States and Counties: Compiled by Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy.