| Name | Vernonia pulchella Small |
| Authorship | Small |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Vernonia Schreber |
| Citation | 1898 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 25: 145 |
| Holdings | 7 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Vernonia pulchella Small |
| Identification made in | [no date] (4), 1964 (3) |