OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Carphephorus tomentosus   FAMILY Asteraceae__   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carphephorus tomentosus   FAMILY Asteraceae__

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

Carphephorus tomentosus

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-32-002:

Carphephorus tomentosus   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Carphephorus tomentosus

 

COMMON NAME:
Sticky Chaffhead, Woolly Chaffhead, Carolina Chaffhead


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image of Carphephorus tomentosus, Sticky Chaffhead, Woolly Chaffhead, Carolina Chaffhead

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_c_tomentosus3

September    Onslow County    NC

image of Carphephorus tomentosus, Sticky Chaffhead, Woolly Chaffhead, Carolina Chaffhead

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_c_tomentosus4

September    Onslow County    NC

image of Carphephorus tomentosus, Sticky Chaffhead, Woolly Chaffhead, Carolina Chaffhead

Will Stuart    wil_tomentosus220925_3402

September    Craven    NC

Croatan National Forest

Flower heads are 12mm wide with acute, appressed, sticky-glandular bracts, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).

image of Carphephorus tomentosus, Sticky Chaffhead, Woolly Chaffhead, Carolina Chaffhead

Will Stuart    wil_tomentosus220925_3406

September    Craven    NC

Croatan National Forest

Stem conspicuously spreading hirsute, at least on the lower part of the stem, per Weakley's Flora (2022).

image of Carphephorus tomentosus, Sticky Chaffhead, Woolly Chaffhead, Carolina Chaffhead

Will Stuart    wil_c_tomento_221015_0334

October    Brunswick County    NC

Juniper Creek Game Lands

Stem leaves are rapidly reduced upward; most are without stalks and pressed against the stem, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).

image of Carphephorus tomentosus, Sticky Chaffhead, Woolly Chaffhead, Carolina Chaffhead

Will Stuart    wil_c_tomento_221015_0338

October    Brunswick County    NC

Juniper Creek Game Lands

The infloresence is composed of 3-many ascending branches, each with 1 head, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).

image of Carphephorus tomentosus, Sticky Chaffhead, Woolly Chaffhead, Carolina Chaffhead

Will Stuart    wil_c_tomento_221015_0349

October    Brunswick County    NC

Juniper Creek Game Lands

Flower heads with 15-20 rosy-pink, 5-lobed, tubular disk florets (no rays) & protruding stamens, per Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Carphephorus tomentosus   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Carphephorus tomentosus   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Carphephorus tomentosus

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-32-002:
Carphephorus tomentosus   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Carphephorus tomentosus

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3047

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: pine savannas, pine flatwoods, and longleaf pine sandhills, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Carolina Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate (reduced upward)

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Disc: Purplish, rose-purplish
Rays: Absent
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Blackish
Achene

 

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