Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Bradburia pilosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
This has a different gestalt than our other golden-asters and can be identified from a passing car, even without seeing the quite pilose stem and leaves. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Chrysopsis pilosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Bradburia pilosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Bradburia pilosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH A preliminary conspectus of Heterotheca section Chrysopsis (Harms, 1974)
Heterotheca pilosa
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-51-007:
Heterotheca gossypina FAMILY Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Chrysopsis pilosa
COMMON NAME:
Soft Goldenaster, Hairy Goldenaster
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_chpi8_001_lvd
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_chrysopsis_pilosa2
September Richmond County NC
An annual with a taproot, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_chrysopsis_pilosa3
September Richmond County NC
Stem, leaves, and phyllaries with spreading non-glandular hairs, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Bradburia pilosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Chrysopsis pilosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Bradburia pilosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Bradburia pilosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
A preliminary conspectus of Heterotheca section Chrysopsis (Harms, 1974)
Heterotheca pilosa
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-51-007:
Heterotheca gossypina
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Chrysopsis pilosa
1928
Forb
Annual
Habitat: barrens, prairies, glades, savannas, roadsides, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Native: south central US
Uncommon in NC Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual/ Ray flowers pistillate
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Cream/Brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p162?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p307
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p357
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