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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Chaptalia tomentosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Woolly Sunbonnets at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Chaptalia tomentosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Chaptalia tomentosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Chaptalia tomentosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-22-001:
Chaptalia tomentosa FAMILY Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chaptalia tomentosa
COMMON NAME:
Woolly Sunbonnets, Pineland Daisy, Night-nodding Bog-dandelion, Sunbonnets
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Alan S. Weakley asw_713204533889508
April FL
Apalachicola National Forest
Flowering stalk leafless, white-woolly; flower heads daisylike with narrow white ray florets, per Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019).
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JK Marlow jkm160415_068069
April Turner County GA
Leaves w tufts of white woolly hairs above, densely matted white hairs below, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).
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JK Marlow jkm160415_070
April Turner County GA
Flower heads grow singly, nodding at first, eventually erect, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).
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JK Marlow jkm160415_079
April Turner County GA
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JK Marlow jkm160415_121
April Turner County GA
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JK Marlow jkm0505r_16
May Williamsburg County SC
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Chaptalia tomentosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Chaptalia tomentosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Chaptalia tomentosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Chaptalia tomentosa
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-22-001:
Chaptalia tomentosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chaptalia tomentosa
308
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: pine savannas, sandhill seeps, pine flatwoods, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain
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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette
FLOWER:
Winter/Spring
Rays: White above, Pink below
Disc: Cream
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Winter/Spring
Grayish-brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p258
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p364
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p198
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p173
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p252
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p066
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p164
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