Purple-headed Sneezeweed blooming in Baltimore Co., Maryland (7/29/2014).

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Purple-headed Sneezeweed blooming in Cecil Co., Maryland (9/5/2013).

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Purple-headed Sneezeweed blooming in Howard Co., Maryland (8/12/2015).

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Purple-headed Sneezeweed blooming in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (6/29/2016).

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Purple-headed Sneezeweed hosting a Pearl Crescent in Charles Co., Maryland (6/30/2007). (c) Bill Hubick, all rights reserved. (Photo ID: 878252 - Psn: 55)

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Purple-headed Sneezeweed in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (6/18/2011).

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Purple-headed Sneezeweed in Howard, Maryland (8/7/2014).

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Purple-headed Sneezeweed photo montage from Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (6/24/2015).

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Purple-headed Sneezeweed in bloom in Howard Co., Maryland (8/7/2017). Collected and processed by Helen Lowe Metzman.

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Purple-headed Sneezeweed blooming in Baltimore Co., Maryland (7/29/2014). View Record Details Media by Jim Wilkinson.

Purple-headed Sneezeweed blooming in Cecil Co., Maryland (9/5/2013). View Record Details Media by Jim Stasz.

Purple-headed Sneezeweed blooming in Howard Co., Maryland (8/12/2015). View Record Details Media by Jim Wilkinson.

Purple-headed Sneezeweed blooming in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (6/29/2016). View Record Details Media by Robert Ferraro.

Purple-headed Sneezeweed in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (6/18/2011). View Record Details Media by Bill Harms.

Purple-headed Sneezeweed in Howard, Maryland (8/7/2014). View Record Details Media by Nancy Magnusson.

Purple-headed Sneezeweed photo montage from Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (6/24/2015). View Record Details Media by Bill Harms.

Purple-headed Sneezeweed in bloom in Howard Co., Maryland (8/7/2017). Collected and processed by Helen Lowe Metzman. View Record Details Media by USGS PWRC.

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Helenium flexuosum

Conservation status
Secure (NatureServe)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Genus:	Helenium
Species:	H. flexuosum
Binomial name
*Helenium flexuosum* Raf. 1838
Synonyms^[2]
Helenium floridanum Fernald Helenium godfreyi Fernald Helenium nudiflorum Nutt.

Helenium flexuosum is a North American plant species in the daisy family known by the common name purple sneezeweed or southern sneezeweed.^[3] It is widespread across much of eastern and central United States and Canada, from Nova Scotia west to Ontario, Minnesota, and Kansas, south to Florida, Louisiana, and eastern Texas.^[4]

Description

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Helenium flexuosum is a perennial herb up to 100 cm (40 inches) tall. One plant can produce 80 or more flower heads in a branching array. Each head has up to 700 yellow or purple disc florets, sometimes with no ray florets, sometimes with 8-13 yellow, red, purple, or brown ray florets. The species grows in fields, ditches, and streambanks.^[3]