Helenium brevifolium (Nutt.) Alph.Wood

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Helenium brevifolium (Nutt.)
Wood
Mark W. Bierner, 1971
University of Texas Herbarium
Helenium brevifolium^Nutt.) COooQ_-
Examined in revisionai study of the decurrent-
leaved species of Helenium L.
1956
H. F. L. ROCK
Reprinted from Rhodoba, Vol. 51, October, 1949
Helenium Curtisii Gray
Same locality as Baldwin 13553
E. P. Killip and F. H. Sargent have collected
from same population	_
Chromosomes studied by B. M. Speese: 2n - 28, n
May 28, 1951
J. T# Baldwin, Jr# 14B01
Helenium Curtisii in Virginia.—On May 4, 1949,1 found
a strange Helenium in flower in a forested marsh about three
miles west of Williamsburg in James City County, Virginia.
On May 15,1 returned to that station and collected a series of
specimens: Baldwin 12558. One specimen was deposited in the
Gray Herbarium; others were distributed via Dr. S. F. Blake.
Prof. M. L. Fernald determined the plant to be Helenium
Curtisii Gray, previously known only from Wake County, North
Carolina, in bogs in the vicinity of Raleigh. It is the second
spring-flowering representative of the genus to be discovered in
southeastern Virginia: see Fernald (Rhodora 41: 491. 1939) for
record of discovery of Helenium brevifolium in Greensville County.
Helenium Curtisii was present in considerable numbers. The
plants grew in a small streamlet or in the adjacent boggy situa-
tions. There too were Medeola virginiana, Trillium pusillum
var. virginianum, and Lilium canadense (?). Small trees and
shrubs were frequent. And Smilax rotundifolia made the place
difficult of entry.—J. T. Baldwin, Jr., College of William and
Mary.
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