Small Wood Sunflower (Helianthus microcephalus)
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Native
Family:
Asteraceae (Sunflower)
Height: 2 to 6.5 ft.
Blooms: July to
October
Leaf Type:
toothed
Bloom Size: 1 in. (typical)
Flower Description:
Individual flowers,
Regular blooms, 6 parts
Location: Youghiogheny River Trail
Date: 8/26/2006
Notes:
May have 5-8 rays. Leavey only shallowly toothed.
More photos of this flower
Small Wood Sunflower may be
easily confused with:
- Pale-Leaved Sunflower
Small wood sunflower has smaller blooms.
- Sneezeweed
Sneezeweed has a relatively unusually shaped petal, roughly triangular with a scalloped outer edge. Leaves of small wood sunflower grow in pairs; sneezeweed leaves are single.
- Thin-Leaved Sunflower
Blossom of the small wood sunflower is smaller, and the leaves are narrower than those of thin-leaved sunflower. Leaves of thin-leaved snflower are stemless.
- Woodland Sunflower
Small wood sunflower has a smaller blossom.
We started out as wildflowers from the bicycle trails of western Pennsylvania, but we've
grown!
Meyer, Joseph E. (1918). The Herbalist and Herb Doctor. Hammond, Ind.: Indiana Herb Gardens. 400 pp.
