Prairie Dock

Synonyms:   Prairie Rosinweed

Scientific Name:   Silphium terebinthinaceum


In contrast to both False Sunflower and true sunflowers, only the ray florets of Silphium species produce seed, while their disk florets are seedless. NOT deer resistant. Aster family (flower heads composed of multiple florets, often disk flowers or both disk and ray flowers).

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Genus species: Silphium terebinthinaceum
Common Names: Prairie Dock, Prairie Rosinweed
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
Introduced Native
Category:Wildflower
Flower Color:Yellow
Months in Bloom  
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