BITTER SNEEZEWEED
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Helenium amarum (Raf. ) H. Rock
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| Carter County, Oklahoma |
| Annual |
| Height: 4-24 inches |
| Family: Asteraceae - Sunflower Family |
| Flowering Period: August, September,October |
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| Stems: | | Erect, slender, bushy-branched above, ribbed, very leafy. | | Leaves: | | Alternate, simple, sessile, numerous, linear to filiform, to 3 inches long, less than 1/10 inch wide, glabrous but densely glandular-dotted. | | Inflorescences: | | Heads, numerous, short-stalked, terminal or in axils of upper leaves, 3/5 to 4/5 inch wide; bracts linear, turning outward at maturity. | | Flowers: | | Ray florets 4-8, 1/5 to 2/5 inch long, yellow, often drooping; tips 3-lobed; disks hemispheric to nearly spherical; disk florets yellow. | | Fruits: | | Achenes, short, appressed-hairy, reddish brown, tipped with ovate, awned scales, enclosing small seed. | | Habitat: | | Waste areas, prairies, overgrazed pastures, and open woods. | | Distribution: | | East 1/2 of Kansas. | | Forage Value: | | Unpalatable and generally avoided by livestock. | | Comments: | | Bitter sneezeweed increases in overgrazed pastures. The milk of animals that graze it is bitter. |
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| Bitter sneezeweed inflorescences |  | | 77 KB | | Carter County, Oklahoma |
| | Bitter sneezeweed |  | | 108 KB | | Carter County, Oklahoma |
| | Bitter sneezeweed stem and leaves |  | | 125 KB | | Carter County, Oklahoma |
| | Bitter sneezeweed florets |  | | 59 KB | | Carter County, Oklahoma |
| | Bitter sneezeweed |  | | 101 KB | | Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon Center, Newton County, Missouri |
| | Bitter sneezeweed head |  | | 40 KB | | Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon Center, Newton County, Missouri |
| | Bitter sneezeweed leaves |  | | 76 KB | | Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon Center, Newton County, Missouri |
| | Bitter sneezeweed |  | | 126 KB | | Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon Center, Newton County, Missouri |
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