Asteraceae
Purplehead sneezeweed
Helenium flexuosum
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Helenium
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Common names
By language (2)
- Chinese
- 紫心菊
- English
- Purplehead sneezeweed
Synonyms
- Heleniastrum nudiflorum (Nutt.) Kuntze
- Heleniastrum parviflorum Kuntze
- Helenium brachypoda Alph.Wood
- Helenium floridanum Fernald
- Helenium godfreyi Fernald
- Helenium nudiflorum Nutt.
- Helenium nudiflorum f. nudiflorum
- Helenium nudiflorum var. nudiflorum
Flowers
- Flower colour
- yellow (USDA PLANTS Database)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: introduced, Lower 48 states: native
Photos
Photo: Eric in SF, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Jeffrey scanlan, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
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Photo: Photo by David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: ashe wagner, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
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Photo: Photo by David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Roseanna Denton, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.