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Scientific Name:Chrysanthemum x morifolium
Altenative names, synonyms, exist for this plant. See RPC Plant Details and check the refernce websites for additional information.
Synonym:Chrysanthemum x-morifolium


NOTES: 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
     Synonym: Chrysanthemum x-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
CNC Habitat: Herb Wall
Identified by:J.D. Mancini
Months in Bloom:  
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