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Phoebanthus
Sign in to savePhoebanthus, called false sunflower, is a genus of North American plants in the tribe Heliantheae within the family Asteraceae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderAsterales
- FamilyAsteraceae
Native toAlabama, Florida
Observations recorded1,361
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 365
- With media
- 357
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Collections
- USF, CAS, IBUNAM, NY, UTC, IND
- Recorded in
- United States, Estados Unidos De America
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Asteraceae
- Image
- Phoebanthus grandiflorus flower - Boyd Hill, St Petersburg FL - June 2025.jpg
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- taxon name
- Phoebanthus
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Phoebanthus
- taxon common name
- false sunflower
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Phoebanthus, called false sunflower, is a genus of North American plants in the tribe Heliantheae within the family Asteraceae.
Phoebanthus includes two species of herbaceous perennials that are both native to the southeastern United States The genus is a close relative of Helianthus, the genus of the common sunflower, and the plants have the general appearance of a sunflower.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Phoebanthus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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