Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 886 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Helenium autumnale L.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 377 [secondary reference]

Kleinschmidt, H.E. & Johnson, R.W. (1977), Weeds of Queensland: 384 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 566 [secondary reference]

Anderberg, A.A., Baldwin, B.G., Bayer, R.G., Breitwieser, I., Jeffrey, C., Dillon, M.O., Eldenäs, P., Funk, V., Garcia-Jacas, N., Hind, D.J.N., Karis, P.O., Lack, H.W., Nesom, G., Nordenstam, B., Oberprieler, C., Panero, J.J., Puttock, C., Robinson, H., Stuessy, T.F., Susanna, A., Urtubey, E., Vogt, R., Ward, J. & Watson, L.E. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007), Compositae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 8: 402, Fig. 80 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 395 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised)

Bean, A.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Helenium. Flora of Australia 37: 445 [secondary reference]

common name: Sneezeweeds [n/a]

• Etymology: "from the Greek helenion, the name of another plant said by Linnaeus to be named after Helen of Troy."

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