Aster family (flower heads composed of multiple florets, often disk flowers or both disk and ray flowers).
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Garden Mum
Genus species:
Chrysanthemum × morifolium
Common Name:
Garden Mum
Family Name:
Asteraceae
Flowers of two basic types: 1) disk florets with tubular corollas, and 2) ray florets with ligulate corollas. Heads are composed of exclusively one type or the other (discoid or ligulate), or typically with disk florets in the center and ray florets around the perimeter; fruit an achene (or cypsela).
Seed Type
Angiosperm
Origin:
Native: native to North America. Non-native: not native to North America. Introduced Native: native to North America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA terminology
Nonnative
Category:
Wildflower
Flower Color:
Pink/Red Yellow White
Identified by:
J.D. Mancini
Months in Bloom
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