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Photographer: Steve C. Garske
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Family Asteraceae
Helenium flexuosum Raf.
purple-head sneezeweed, southern sneezeweed
Helenium: said to be named by Linnaeus after Helen of Troy, according to the legend that these flowers sprang up from the ground where her tears were supposed to have fallen
flexuosum: flexible
Hazardous 
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| Status: | Introduced - naturalized |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 8"-40" tall forb |
| Flower: | head 1"-2" wide with 8-13 yellow, 3-lobed rays 1/3"-3/4" long and a brownish disk 1/4"-1/2" wide; inflorescence with many heads in branched, open clusters; blooms June-Oct. |
| Fruit: | 4 -5-angled, dry seed without fluffy pappus |
| Leaf: | winged, alternate, dotted with glands, mostly erect |
| Habitat: | moist; disturbed sites |
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