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Habitat: Old fields, disturbed areas, woodland borders
Basal lvs oblanceolate, petioled, 1-4" lng. Basal & lower lvs wither early, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
Stem stout at base, long hairs often in lines on the upper stem, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).
Inflorescence a diffuse panicle w many small sharp-pointed bract-like leaves, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
Involucral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, the apex acicular [needle-like], per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
Habitat: Glades and barrens over ultramafic (serpentine) or mafic (diabase) rocks
Habitat: Moist soils
Habitat: Mesic to dry upland forests and woodlands, swamps, wet pine flatwoods, clearings, old fields, roadsides, other disturbed areas
Long and often horizontally spreading branches with flowering heads near or at the ends, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Less than 15 white rays (occasionally w a lavender tinge). Disk purplish-red, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
...progressively reduced distally, branch leaves abruptly smaller, margins sometimes entire, per Flora of North America.
New vernal rosettes often developing at flowering, per Flora of North America.
Involucres turbinate; bracts whitish with green midrib, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
Disc corollas white to cream turning pink to purplish, lobes strongly reflexed, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
Habitat: Bottomlands, marshes
Diffuse paniculiform arrays, branches spreading horizontally or arching, per Flora of North America.
Habitat: Old fields, disturbed areas, pastures
Leaves firm, margins entire to crenulate-serrate, recurved, scabrous, per Flora of North America.
Rays 14-20, white or blue to lavender; disc flowers yellow or red, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
Involucres cylindro-campanulate. Phyllaries appressed or slightly spreading, per Flora of North America.
Normal leaves are linear, but the foliage at flowering mostly short bractlike leaves on branches, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
Leaves linear to narrowly elliptic, smooth to scabrous above, glabrous beneath, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
Involucres 4.5-6mm high [vs. those of S. racemosum var. subdumosum 3-3.6mm high], per Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950).
Peduncles (at least some) > 2cm long, w numerous small, closely-spaced bracts mostly 1-4mm long, per Weakley's Flora (2023).