Taxon: Verbesina encelioides (Cav.) Benth. & Hook. f. ex A. Gray

Common names:

• American dogweed   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  
• butter daisy   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• crown-beard   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  
• golden crown-beard   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• South African daisy   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  
• wild sunflower   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Bee plants: honey production   (fide Econ Pl Aust)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Econ Pl Aust)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Verbesina encelioides from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Montana, Wyoming
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte, Baja Sur, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacan, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Bahamas; Cuba; Hispaniola; Puerto Rico
  Western South America: Bolivia; Ecuador - Guayas, Manabi
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Paraguay - Alto Paraguay; Uruguay

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Morocco
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Egypt - Sinai
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• EUROPE
  Southwestern Europe: Spain
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: U.S. Outlying Islands - Midway Islands; United States - Hawaii

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
• Coleman, J. 1966. A taxonomic revision of section Ximenesia of the genus Verbesina (Compositae). Amer. Midl. Naturalist 76:476.
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis.
• Martin, W. C. & C. R. Hutchins. 1980. A flora of New Mexico.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980–. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Rzedowski, J. & G. Rzedowski, eds. 1991–. Flora del Bajio y de regiones adyacentes.
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Willis, J. H. 1970–1972. A handbook to plants in Victoria.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Verbesina encelioides.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Verbesina encelioides.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Verbesina encelioides.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Ximenesia encelioides Cav. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Verbesina encelioides (Cav.) Benth. & Hook. f. ex A. Gray:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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