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Grass-leaved Golden-aster, Grassleaf Aster
Pityopsis adenolepis
Look for it in dry woodlands, forests, & disturbed places, apparently in NC Mountains only in the Escarpment
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Rays yellow, 4-10, 1-1.5cm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Peduncle, upper stem, phyllaries densely glandular-hairy (stipitate-glandular), per Weakley's Flora.
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Grasslike leaves with silky-silvery hairs on stems and leaves, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
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Lower leaves less than 10mm wide. Basal leaves much longer than stem leaves, per Weakley's Flora.
Grass-leaved Golden-aster, Grassleaf Aster
Pityopsis graminifolia var. latifolia
Look for it in sandhills, dry woodlands & forests (such as ridgetop pine/heath communities in the Mountains), roadbanks
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Lower leaves up to 20mm wide. Basal leaves much longer than stem leaves, per Weakley's Flora.
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Involucres 8-12mm high, per Weakley's Flora.
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Ray florets 10-16; disc florets more than 30, per Weakley's Flora.
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Plants spread vegetatively by underground stems (rhizomes), forming colonies, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont.
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Bracts linear, with glands mostly hidden by silky trichomes, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Look for it in sandhills
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Its sericeous peduncles, small involucre, and reduced distal cauline leaves...
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... are similar to var. tenuifolia, per Flora of North America.
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Stem leaves reduced upwards, only slightly overlapping; lower lvs to 20mm wide, per Weakley's Flora.
Sandhills Golden-aster, Taylor County Golden-aster
Pityopsis pinifolia
Look for it in sandhills, on sandy roadsides
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The epithet pinifolia means "with leaves like a pine tree", per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Leaves and stem glabrate, not silky pubescent; leaves 0.8-1.5mm wide, per Weakley's Flora.
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The numerous narrowly linear leaves distinguish it from our other Pityopsis, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Rays yellow, 10-20, 1-1.5cm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Ruth's Golden-aster
Pityopsis ruthii
Look for it on flood-scoured rocks along rivers. Restricted to rocks within the flood zone of the Hiwassee and Ocoee Rivers
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The heads are small, with about 12 rays 3/8" [1cm] long, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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The stems are leafy up to the flower heads, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Leaves linear, 1-3" long, with silky hairs that give a silvery appearance, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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A low, much-branched plant growing on rocks along river gorges. Rare, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.