Floral Illustrations of the Seasons / Consisting of the Most Beautiful, Hardy and Rare Herbaceous Plants, Cultivated in the Flower Garden

by Margaret Roscoe

Plate 43. Helianthus atrorubens.
Drawn from Nature by M.R. Engraved by R. Havell Jun^r.

HELIANTHUS Atrorubens.

Dark-eyed Sunflower.

Class and Order.—Syngenesia Polygamia Frustrania.

Syn.	Helianthus atrorubens.	Pursh Flo. N. A. vol. 2, p. 573.
—	Helianthus atrorubens.	Bot. Mag. pl. 2668.

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Root fibrous—stem tall, erect, branching—radical leaves very large, broadly lanceolate, margins dentate, nerved, of a dark green—cauline leaves sessile, opposite, ovate lanceolate, dentate acute—calyx many segments imbricate, acute—corolla dark bright yellow—radiated florets, barren dentate—florets of the disk fertile—whole plant rugose.