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Wetland and Aquatic Plants of Oklahoma

Interactive Keys: Emergent

White Flowers

    
10. Inflorescence highly modified into disk and ray flowers

Sunflowers (Asteraceae)

Starwort (Boltonia asteroides (L.) L'Hér.) 
Native perennial.
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Boltonia asteroides map

NWI status: FACW

Spiny aster (Chloracantha spinosa (Benth.) Nesom)
Native perennial.

Chloracantha spinosa map                                   Chloracantha spinosa

Note: This species can be locally invasive.

NWI status: FACW

Yerba de Tajo (Eclipta alba (L.) Hassk)
Native perennial.


Eclipta alba map                                Eclipta alba

NWI status: FACW-

Common boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum L.)
Native Perennial.

Eupatorium perfoliatum

Note: Larval food plant for some moth species.  The Cherokee, Delaware, and Seminole used this plant to treat chills and fever.

NWI status: FACW+

Saltmarsh aster (Symphyotrichum subulatum (Michx.) Nesom)
Native annual.

Symphyotrichum subulatum map

Note: Appears as a wetland undergoes drawdown.  It can be very aggressive and perdominate in a wetland.

NWI status: OBL

Last update: 2/18/04
Comments to : Bruce Hoagland

bhoagland@ou.edu

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