Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (4/24/22):
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-041a:
Aster umbellatus var. umbellatus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Doellingeria umbellata
COMMON NAME:
Northern Tall Flat-top White Aster, Northern Tall Whitetop Aster, Northern Tall Flat-top Aster
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JK Marlow jkm150814_764
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Disk flowers 16-40 per head; ray flowers 5-14 per head, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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JK Marlow jkm150814_766
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Leaves mostly 4-6x as long as wide, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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JK Marlow jkm150814_768
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Leaves narrowly elliptic and entire, on short petioles, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm150814_796
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Plants with stems scattered from creeping rhizomes (forming clonal patches), per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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JK Marlow jkm150814_798
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
The inflorescence is not an umbel but a flattish corymbiform cluster, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmdumbellata_wsm1
Month Unknown Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (4/24/22):
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-041a:
Aster umbellatus var. umbellatus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Doellingeria umbellata
172
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in NC Mountains, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Habitat: Wet meadows, pastures, bogs, fens, marshes, stream floodplains, roadbanks, to at least 1900 m, per Weakley's Flora
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: White
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary
Flower heads in compact flat corymbs
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers p115
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p116
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p123
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p462
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p179
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p115
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p289
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p338
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p212