Wednesday's Wildflower: Tennessee Leafcup
TENNESSEE LEAFCUP, Polymnia laevigata Beadle Aster Family (Asteraceae) Submitted by Roger Hammer Polymnia laevigata, photo by Roger Hammer The lower leaves of this species reach 6"–12" long and 4"–6" wide and are deeply and raggedly cut with pointed lobes, reducing in size up the stem with few or no lobes. The 3'–6' stems are glabrous (smooth). The flower heads are about ½" wide, subtended by a whorl of leafy bracts, and with 3-toothed ray florets and male disk florets.