Summary ²

The daisylike plant Helenium bigelovii is known as Bigelow's sneezeweed. It is a 1 to 3 ft-high plant of the "composite" family (sunflower, or aster family) that bears ray flowers that are usually bright yellow in color and disc flowers that are yellow in bloom and then turn dark brown. The flowerheads have a characteristic shape with a very spherical disc and the 14-30 "petals" (the ray flowers) reflexed downward and toothed or lobed at their ends.

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