Scientific Name:	Helianthus ciliaris DC.	Common Name:	Blueweed, Texas
Scientific Family:		Affiliation:	TCE, TAES, And TTU
Local Names:	Blueweed	Common Family Name:	Sunflower
Life Cycle:	Perennial >> Creeping	Leaf Arrangement:	Opposite
Stem Characteristic:	Erect	Stem Type:	Round
Leaf Structure:	Simple	Petiole:	No
Leaf Margins:	Entire	Leaf Shape:	Narrow To Broadly Lanceolate
Leaf Hairs:	Yes	Flower Color:	Yellow
Growth Stage:	Flowering	Environment:	Commercial Vegetables, Aquatic Environments, Corn Field, Cotton Field, CRP, Gardens, Pastures, Peanut Field, Roadsides, Sorghum Field, Water Ways
Other:	Leaves and stems are blue-green. Ray flowers are yellow and disk flowere are reddish to dark purple. Leaf margins wavy, often with hairs.