Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Note that S. asteroides was split by Nesom in 2021 into a revised S. asteroides and a new S. caespitosus. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

Sericocarpus asteroides produces (in addition to the larger perennating rhizome) slender, scale-leaved, stoloniform rhizomes that may elongate laterally up to 15 centimeters -- with a rooting plantlet at the tip of these rhizomes. Read more in Nesom 2021c.

Test-drive A Teaching Key to Asters.

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sericocarpus asteroides   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Sericocarpus asteroides (Asteraceae: Astereae), rhizomatous and colonial, and Sericocarpus caespitosus, sp. nov

Sericocarpus asteroides

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Sericocarpus asteroides

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-001?:

Aster paternus   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Sericocarpus asteroides

COMMON NAME:
Toothed Whitetop Aster

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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_seas3_001_lvd

        

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sericocarpus asteroides   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sericocarpus asteroides   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Sericocarpus asteroides (Asteraceae: Astereae), rhizomatous and colonial, and Sericocarpus caespitosus, sp. nov
Sericocarpus asteroides

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Sericocarpus asteroides

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-001?:
Aster paternus   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sericocarpus asteroides