Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-041a:
Aster umbellatus var. umbellatus FAMILY Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Doellingeria umbellata
COMMON NAME:
Northern Tall Flat-top White Aster, Northern Tall Whitetop Aster, Northern Tall Flat-top Aster
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JK Marlow jkm150814_764
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Disk flowers 16-40 per head; ray flowers 5-14 per head, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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JK Marlow jkm150814_766
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Leaves mostly 4-6x as long as wide, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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JK Marlow jkm150814_768
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Leaves narrowly elliptic and entire, on short petioles, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm150814_796
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Plants with stems scattered from creeping rhizomes (forming clonal patches), per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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JK Marlow jkm150814_798
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
The inflorescence is not an umbel but a flattish corymbiform cluster, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmdumbellata_wsm1
Month Unknown Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-041a:
Aster umbellatus var. umbellatus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Doellingeria umbellata
172
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Wet meadows, pastures, bogs, fens, marshes, stream floodplains, roadbanks, to at least 1900 m, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in NC Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: White
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads in compact flat corymbs
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p115
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p116
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p123
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p462
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p179
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p115
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p073
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p289
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p338
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p212
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