Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Doellingeria sericocarpoides
FAMILY
Asteraceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Test-drive A Teaching Key to Asters.
See herbarium specimens at the Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants.
Read more about Doellingeria at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Doellingeria sericocarpoides
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)
Aster sericocarpoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-041b:
Aster umbellatus var. brevisquamus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Doellingeria sericocarpoides
COMMON NAME:
Pocosin Flat-top Aster, Southern Whitetop, Streamhead Flat-top Aster, Southern Flat-top Aster
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Will Stuart wil_d_sericocarpoides_222
August Scotland County NC
North Carolina Sandhills Gamelands
This tall aster is one of the characteristic plants of boggy streamheads, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
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Will Stuart wil_dsericocarpoides_037
September Richmond County NC
North Carolina Sandhills Gamelands
Leaves are numerous, alternate, elliptic to broadly lanceolate, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
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Will Stuart wil_dsericocarpoides_086
September Richmond County NC
North Carolina Sandhills Gamelands
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Will Stuart wil_dsericocarpoides_105
September Richmond County NC
North Carolina Sandhills Gamelands
Few rays, as in the genus Sericocarpus [thus, "sericocarpoides"], per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Doellingeria sericocarpoides
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Doellingeria sericocarpoides
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)
Aster sericocarpoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED)
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-041b:
Aster umbellatus var. brevisquamus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Doellingeria sericocarpoides
3146
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Uncommon
Look for it in sandhill ecotones and streamhead pocosins, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: White
Disc: Yellow turning purplish with age
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary
Flower heads in flat corymbs
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p116
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p178
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p163