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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Antennaria solitaria
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Solitary Pussytoes at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Antennaria solitaria
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Antennaria solitaria
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-39-001:
Antennaria solitaria FAMILY Asteraceae__
COMMON NAME:
Solitary Pussytoes, Southern Singlehead Pussytoes
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_anso_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm140322_395
March Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
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JK Marlow jkm140322_402
March Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
A colonial perennial with creeping runners (stolons), per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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Keith Bradley kab_a_solitaria_1854
March Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
Basal leaves to 3" long, woolly beneath, oblong to obovate, mostly 3-veined, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm130420_522
April Transylvania County NC
Foothills Trail
Scape 2-25cm tall, 4-7 bracteate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm130420_524
April Transylvania County NC
Foothills Trail
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JK Marlow jkm130420_527
April Transylvania County NC
Foothills Trail
Large solitary head [this, pistillate] on each nearly naked flower stalk, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm130420_531
April Transylvania County NC
Foothills Trail
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_a_solitaria_3
August
Unique in Antennaria in having only one head per plant [this one staminate], per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Antennaria solitaria
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Antennaria solitaria
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Antennaria solitaria
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-39-001:
Antennaria solitaria
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
103
Forb
Perennial
Dioecious
Habitat: forests and woodlands, often mesic and/or shaded, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette
FLOWER:
Spring
Disc: White/ Purplish
Rays: Absent
Inferior ovary
Unisexual
FRUIT:
Spring
Brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p102
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962) p014
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p400
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p177
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p117
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p260
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p057
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p274
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p323
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p179
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