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''Helenium'' is a genus of Annual plant, annuals and herbaceous perennial plants in the family Asteraceae, Native plant, native to the Americas. They bear yellow or orange daisy-like pseudanthium, composite flowers. A number of these species (particularly ''Helenium autumnale'') have the common name sneezeweed, based on the former use of their dried leaves in making Herbal smokeless tobacco, snuff. It was inhaled to cause sneezing that would supposedly rid the body of evil spirits. Larger species may grow up to tall. The genus is named for Helen of Troy, daughter of Zeus and Leda (mythology), Leda. ''Helenium'' species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including ''Phymatopus, Phymatopus behrensii''. Genus level properties: most conspicuously globe-like disk-shaped flowers, rays three-lobed at tip. Species File:Helenium 'El Dorado'. Opengebarsten bloemknop. 18-07-2021. (d.j.b).jpg, helenium 'El dorado'. File:Bloem van een Helenium. 03-07-2021 ...
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Helenium Drummondii
''Helenium'' is a genus of annuals and herbaceous perennial plants in the family Asteraceae, native to the Americas. They bear yellow or orange daisy-like composite flowers. A number of these species (particularly '' Helenium autumnale'') have the common name sneezeweed, based on the former use of their dried leaves in making snuff. It was inhaled to cause sneezing that would supposedly rid the body of evil spirits. Larger species may grow up to tall. The genus is named for Helen of Troy, daughter of Zeus and Leda. ''Helenium'' species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including '' Phymatopus behrensii''. Genus level properties: most conspicuously globe-like disk-shaped flowers, rays three-lobed at tip. Species File:Helenium 'El Dorado'. Opengebarsten bloemknop. 18-07-2021. (d.j.b).jpg, helenium 'El dorado'. File:Bloem van een Helenium. 03-07-2021 (actm.).jpg, 'helenium 'Flamingo'. File:Verregende bloem van een Helenium 'El Dorado'. 22-0 ...
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Helenium Autumnale
''Helenium autumnale'' is a North American species of poisonous flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Common names include common sneezeweed and large-flowered sneezeweed. Description Common sneezeweed is a perennial herb up to tall. In late summer and fall, one plant can produce as many as 100 yellow flower heads in a branching array. Each head has yellow 11–21 ray florets surrounding sometimes as many as 800 yellow disc florets. Leaves are dark green, alternate, and lance-shaped. The Latin specific epithet ''autumnale'' is in reference to the plant's autumn flowering. Distribution and habitat This plant is widespread across much of the United States and Canada, from Northwest Territories as far south as far northern California, Arizona, Louisiana, and Florida. It has not been found in southern or central California, or the 4 Atlantic Provinces of Canada. It grows in moist, open areas along streams and ponds as well as wet meadow A wet meadow is a type of wetland with ...
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Helenium Amarum
''Helenium amarum'' is a species of annual herb in the daisy family known by the common names yellowdicks, yellow sneezeweed, fiveleaf sneezeweed, and bitter sneezeweed. It is native to much of the south-central United States (Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, New Mexico) and northern Mexico ( Chihuahua, Coahuila), and it is present elsewhere in North America, Australia, and the West Indies as an introduced species. ''Helenium amarum'' is a multibranched bushy erect plant reaching 20 to 70 centimeters (8-28 inches) in height and thickly foliated in narrow to threadlike leaves. The tops of stem branches hold inflorescences of many daisy-like flower heads. Each head has a rounded center of sometimes as many as 250 golden yellow disc florets and a fringe of 8-10 usually lighter yellow ray florets which are reflexed away from the center. The fruit is a tiny achene about a millimeter long. This herb is weedy in some areas. The plant is somewhat toxic to mammals and insectsArnason, ...
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Helenium Bolanderi
''Helenium bolanderi'' is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name coastal sneezeweed. It is native to southern Oregon and northern California as far south as Mendocino County, primarily along the seacoast. ''Helenium bolanderi'' perennial herb sometimes as much as 140 cm (56 inches or 4 2/3 feet) in height. It has a generally unbranched, erect stem with oval-shaped leaves. The flowers arise on naked peduncles with one to three flower heads per plant. Each flower head has a fringe of 15-30 golden yellow ray florets bent backwards from a rounded center of sometimes over 1000 disc florets (yellow toward the base but brown or purple near the tips). The fruit is a tiny, hairy achene An achene (; ), also sometimes called akene and occasionally achenium or achenocarp, is a type of simple fruit, simple dry fruits, dry fruit produced by many species of flowering plants. Achenes are monocarpellate (formed from one carpel) and Deh ...
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Helenium Bigelovii
''Helenium bigelovii'' is a North American perennial plant in the sunflower family, commonly known as Bigelow's sneezeweed.Sierra Nevada Wildflowers, Karen Wiese, 2nd Ed., 2013, p. 116 It grows in moist areas such as meadows, marshes, or streamsides. It is found at moderate and higher elevations (3000–10,000 ft) in the foothills and mountains of California and Oregon: Cascades, Coast Ranges, Klamath Mountains, Sierra Nevada, etc. Cultivars of the species are used in gardening as ornamentals. ''Helenium bigelovii'' is a perennial herb sometimes as much as tall. One plant can produce as many as 20 flower heads, either one per branch or in branching arrays. Each head has 14-20 yellow ray florets (bending backwards and with teeth at the tips) surrounding sometimes as many as 800 disc florets (yellow at first, turning brown as they get older).Norman F. Weeden, A Sierra Nevada Flora, 4th Ed., Wilderness Press, 1996. The species is named for J.M. Bigelow, a plant collector ...
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Helenium Brevifolium
''Helenium brevifolium'' is a North American perennial plant in the sunflower family, commonly known as shortleaf sneezeweed. It is native to the southeastern United States, from Virginia to eastern Louisiana and inland as far as Tennessee. ''Helenium brevifolium'' is a perennial herb up to 100 cm (40 inches) tall. One plant can produce as many as 10 flower heads, in branching arrays. The head is spherical or hemispherical, with sometimes as many as 800 disc florets, each floret yellow near the base but purple or brown or yellow towards the tip. There are also 9-24 yellow ray florets Asteraceae () is a large family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchidaceae, and which is the larger fa .... The species grows in bogs, swamps, and other wet places. References External links''Helenium brevifolium'' - Louisiana Department of Wildlif ...
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Helenium Elegans
''Helenium elegans'' is a North American perennial plant in the sunflower family, commonly known as pretty sneezeweed. It is native to the south-central United States and to northeastern Mexico.Turner, B. L. 2013. The comps of Mexico. A systematic account of the family Asteraceae (chapter 11: tribe Helenieae). Phytologia Memoirs 16: 1–100 ''Helenium elegans'' is an annual herb up to 120 cm (4 feet) tall. Stems have wings, meaning that they have flaps of tissue running down the sides. One plant can produce 200 or more small flower heads, in branching arrays. The head is very nearly spherical, nearly covered with as many as 700 disc florets, each floret yellow near the base but brown towards the tip. There are also 1-17 yellow or brown ray florets. The species grows along streambanks and in ditches. ;Varieties *''Helenium elegans'' var. ''amphibolum'' (A.Gray) Bierner - Texas, Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas *''Helenium elegans'' var. ''elegans'' - Texas ...
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Helenium Aromaticum
''Helenium aromaticum'' is a species of sneezeweed found in the countries of Chile and Peru. It grows as a self-supporting herb Herbs are a widely distributed and widespread group of plants, excluding vegetables, with savory or aromatic properties that are used for flavoring and garnishing food, for medicinal purposes, or for fragrances. Culinary use typically distingu ..., forming broad leaves. References aromaticum Flora of Peru Flora of Chile Plants described in 1915 {{Asteroideae-stub ...
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Helenium Chihuahuense
''Helenium chihuahuense'' is a North American perennial plant In horticulture, the term perennial (''wikt:per-#Prefix, per-'' + ''wikt:-ennial#Suffix, -ennial'', "through the year") is used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annual plant, annuals and biennial plant, biennials. It has thus been d ... in the sunflower family. It has been found only in the state of Chihuahua in northwestern Mexico.Turner, B. L. 2013. The comps of Mexico. A systematic account of the family Asteraceae (chapter 11: tribe Helenieae). Phytologia Memoirs 16: 1–100 ''Helenium chihuahuense'' is a branching annual herb up to 78 cm (31.2 inches) tall with thick rootstocks producing only one stem with a single flower head. The leaves are long, narrow and irregularly lobed. The head is spherical or egg-shaped, with many disc flowers, each yellow with purple tips. These are surrounded by about 14-15 yellow ray flowers. References External linksPhoto of herbarium specimen at Missouri Bo ...
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Helenium Campestre
''Helenium campestre'' is a North American perennial plant in the sunflower family, commonly known as oldfield sneezeweed or arkansas sneezeweed. It is native to the southeastern United States, in Arkansas and northwestern Louisiana. Description ''Helenium campestre'' is a perennial herb up to 100 cm (40 inches) tall. One plant can produce as many as 20 flower heads, in branching arrays. The head is spherical or egg-shaped, with sometimes as many as 700 disc florets, each floret yellow near the base but purple or brown towards the tip. There are also 9-15 yellow ray florets. The species grows in ditches, fields, and streambanks. Similar species The plant is often misidentified as Southern Sneezeweed ('' Helenium flexuosum'') but it can be identified by the number of lobes on the disk florets. H. Campestre has 5 lobes, while H. flexusom has 4. The flowers on H. campestre are larger and droop more. Distribution This species has a very limited distribution, occurring onl ...
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