OX-EYE
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Heliopsis helianthoides (L. ) Sweet var. scabra (Dunal ) Fernald
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| Harlan County, Nebraska |
| Perennial |
| Height: 2.5-5 feet |
| Family: Asteraceae - Sunflower Family |
| Flowering Period: July, August |
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| Also Called: | | False sunflower. | | Stems: | | Erect, unbranched or branching above, rough. | | Leaves: | | Opposite, simple, short-stalked, ovate to broadly lanceolate, 2 to 6 inches long, 1 to 3 inches wide, firm, usually rough, often with 3 conspicuous veins arising from bases; margins toothed; tips pointed. | | Inflorescences: | | Heads, 1 to several, terminal, on long naked stalks, 1.25 to 2.75 inches wide; bracts ovate, in 1 or 2 series, pubescent; tips rounded to pointed. | | Flowers: | | Ray florets 10-16, to 1.5 inch long, dark yellow; disk florets numerous, corollas yellow. | | Fruits: | | Achenes, less than 1/4 inch long, 3- or 4-angled, glabrous, reddish brown, tipped with short crown or pappus absent, enclosing small seed. | | Habitat: | | Dry, waste areas, roadsides, open woods, and edges of fields and thickets. | | Distribution: | | East 1/2 of Kansas. | | Comments: | | Livestock and deer sometimes graze ox-eye. |
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| Ox-eye leaves |  | | 156 KB | | Harlan County, Nebraska |
| | Ox-eye bracts |  | | 90 KB | | Harlan County, Nebraska |
| | Ox-eye |  | | 154 KB | | Harlan County, Nebraska |
| | Ox-eye |  | | 156 KB | | Harlan County, Nebraska |
| | False sunflower |  | | 74 KB | | Morris County, Kansas |
| | False sunflower |  | | 50 KB | | Morris County, Kansas |
| | False sunflower |  | | 63 KB | | Morris County, Kansas |
| | Ox-eye |  | | 78 KB | | Riley County, Kansas |
| | False sunflower leaf |  | | 79 KB | | Morris County, Kansas |
| | False sunflower florets |  | | 42 KB | | Leavenworth County, Kansas |
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