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Photographer: from USDA Plants website
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Family Asteraceae
Euthamia tenuifolia (Pursh) Nutt. var. tenuifolia
Coastal Plain flat-topped goldenrod, slender goldentop
Euthamia: Greek for "well-crowded," from the dense inflorescence
tenuifolia: with finely-divided, slender leaves
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 12"-40" tall, usually with sweetly scented forb |
| Flower: | head with mostly 10-16 short, yellow rays; inflorescence flat-topped clusters of stalked heads |
| Fruit: | dry seed on fluffy pappus |
| Leaf: | alternate, 1 main nerve, thin and not stiff and with obvious glandular dots, about 1/8" wide, often with smaller leaves in the axils |
| Habitat: | sun; shores, beaches; in sandy soil |
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