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Forb
Perennial
Dioecious

Native to North Carolina

Documented growing wild in - NC -

Uncommon (rare in Mountains)

Look for it in dry woodlands & fields, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette

FLOWER:
Spring
Disc: White/ Purplish
Rays: Absent
Unisexual
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Spring
Brown
Achene

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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Field Pussytoes at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Antennaria neglecta FAMILY Asteraceae__

INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Antennaria neglecta var. neglecta

COMMON NAME:
Field Pussytoes

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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_anne_001_lvd

Keith Bradley kab_a_neglecta_1481

April Polk County NC

Basal leaves prominently 1-nerved. Middle & upper stem leaves tipped w flags, per Weakley's Flora (2012).