Silphium brachiatum Gatt. is a plant in the Asteraceae family, order Asterales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

Photo of Silphium brachiatum Gatt. (Silphium brachiatum Gatt.)
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Silphium brachiatum Gatt.

Silphium brachiatum Gatt.

Silphium brachiatum, or Cumberland rosinweed, is a rare flowering plant in Asteraceae native to a few counties in the southern US Cumberland Plateau.

Family
Genus
Silphium
Order
Asterales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Silphium brachiatum Gatt.

Silphium brachiatum, commonly known as Cumberland rosinweed, is a species of flowering plant that belongs to the family Asteraceae. It is a rare species in the genus Silphium, native to the southern Cumberland Plateau, where it only occurs in a small number of counties across Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee. This species was first described by Augustin Gattinger, who served as the first state botanist of Tennessee.

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Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Asterales Asteraceae Silphium

More from Asteraceae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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