Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Carphephorus bellidifolius
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Leaves of the basal rosette look remarkably like those of Chamaelirium luteum. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
The leaf apices are generally blunt, giving the leaves a nearly spatulate shape. At 10× magnification, the upper leaf surface can be seen to have minute circular depressions (glands), looking like beaten into the surface with a tiny ball hammer, per Weakley's Flora (2022)
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carphephorus bellidifolius
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Carphephorus bellidifolius
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-32-001:
Carphephorus bellidifolius FAMILY Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Carphephorus bellidifolius
COMMON NAME:
Sandhill Chaffhead, Carphephorus, Sandywoods Chaffhead
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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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 (Nelson, 2006).
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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 (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm161001_116
October Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
Flowers lack rays, are pink to rose-purple, with long styles sticking out, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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JK Marlow jkm161001_119
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
October Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
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JK Marlow jkm161001_124
October 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 (Sorrie, 2011).
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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 (Sorrie, 2011).
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Will Stuart wil_bellidifol201020_3556
October Richmond NC
North Carolina Sandhills Gamelands
An unusal look at an isolated plant. — Will Stuart
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Will Stuart wil_bellidifol2010203556b
October Richmond NC
North Carolina Sandhills Gamelands
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Carphephorus bellidifolius
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carphephorus bellidifolius
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Carphephorus bellidifolius
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-32-001:
Carphephorus bellidifolius
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Carphephorus bellidifolius
3046
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, rarely in other xeric sandy forests and woodlands, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Carolina Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate (reduced upward)
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Disc: Lavender/Pink
Rays: Absent
Inferior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Blackish
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p041
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p230
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p385
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p307
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p381
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p112
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