Vascular Plants of North Carolina
Account for Southeastern Sneezeweed - Helenium pinnatifidum   (Nuttall) Rydberg
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Author(Nuttall) Rydberg
DistributionSouthern Coastal Plain only.

Coastal Plain, NC to southern FL and southern AL.
AbundanceRare on the landscape, but a few populations are large. The NCNHP database has 24 records, of which about half are considered extant. This is a Significantly Rare species.
HabitatWet Longleaf Pine-Wiregrass savannas and flatwoods, pitcher-plant seepages, roadside ditches.
PhenologyFlowering and fruiting April-May.
IdentificationThree of our species of sneezeweed bloom in mid-late spring, have well-developed basal leaves but few and small stem leaves, and can be testy to tell apart without attention to details. Leaves of Southeastern Sneezeweed are not decurrent on the stem or at most 5 mm long (there is no continuation of leaf tissue as a "wing" down the stem). Both Savanna Sneezeweed (H. vernale) and Shortleaf Sneezeweed (H. brevifolium) are conspicuously winged. This is a quite striking species, despite only one or two flowering heads per plant; obviously, each head is quite broad (about 2 inches across).
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Other Common Name(s)None
State RankS2
Global RankG5
State StatusSR-P
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