3379

Forb
Perennial
Dioecious (populations consisting of both pistillate and staminate plants)

Native north of the Carolinas

Documented growing wild in - - -

Look for it in shale barrens and other dry, rocky habitats, per Weakley's Flora

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...Dry

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette

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

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Achene

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p177
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p180

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Antennaria virginica   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Antennaria virginica   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Antennaria neglecta var. argillicola

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Antennaria virginica var. argillicola

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Antennaria virginica var. virginica