Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Doellingeria sericocarpoides
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Doellingeria sericocarpoides
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Doellingeria sericocarpoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)
Aster sericocarpoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-041b:
Aster umbellatus var. brevisquamus FAMILY Asteraceae
INCLUDING (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Doellingeria humilis
INCLUDING (BY IMPLICATION) 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 (Sorrie, 2011).
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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 (Sorrie, 2011).
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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 (Sorrie, 2011).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Doellingeria sericocarpoides
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Doellingeria sericocarpoides
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Doellingeria sericocarpoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)
Aster sericocarpoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-041b:
Aster umbellatus var. brevisquamus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDING (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Doellingeria humilis
INCLUDING (BY IMPLICATION)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Doellingeria sericocarpoides
3146
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Peaty soils of sandhill ecotones and streamhead pocosins, other acidic seeps and swamps, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon in Carolina Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: White
Disc: Yellow turning purplish with age
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
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 (Nelson, 2006) p116
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p178
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p163
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