Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Sandhill Chaffhead at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Carphephorus bellidifolius
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carphephorus bellidifolius
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-32-001:
Carphephorus bellidifolius
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
COMMON NAME:
Sandhill Chaffhead, Carphephorus, Sandywoods Chaffhead
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Keith Bradley kab_c_bellidifolius_2565
September Lancaster County SC
Forty Acre Rock Heritage Preserve
Showy heads near branch tips, each with several tubular disk flowers, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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Keith Bradley kab_c_bellidifolius_2569
September Lancaster County SC
Forty Acre Rock Heritage Preserve
Corymb usually 1/3 or more the length of the stem, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm161001_116
September Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
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September Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
Phyllaries broadly elliptic to elliptic-obovate, glabrous, apices rounded, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm161001_120
September Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
Heads in open, loose, usually corymbiform, sometimes paniculiform, arrays, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm161001_121
September Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
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JK Marlow jkm161001_122
September Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
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JK Marlow jkm161001_124
September Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
Inflorescence about as broad as long, much-branched, with many heads, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
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JK Marlow jkm161001_776
September Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
Basal & proximal cauline lvs usually oblanceolate; cauline gradually reduced, per Flora of North America.
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Will Stuart wil_2936035015_a61f9436de
October Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
These late season asters are butterfly magnets! Buckeye (Junonia coenia). — Will Stuart
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Will Stuart wil_8444436577_cef98091e2
October Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
Individual plants bloom for long periods and would make good garden subjects, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.