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):
Doellingeria sericocarpoides   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



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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image of Doellingeria sericocarpoides, Pocosin Flat-top Aster, Southern Whitetop, Streamhead Flat-top Aster, Southern Flat-top Aster

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).

image of Doellingeria sericocarpoides, Pocosin Flat-top Aster, Southern Whitetop, Streamhead Flat-top Aster, Southern Flat-top Aster

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).

image of Doellingeria sericocarpoides, Pocosin Flat-top Aster, Southern Whitetop, Streamhead Flat-top Aster, Southern Flat-top Aster

Will Stuart    wil_dsericocarpoides_086

September    Richmond County    NC

North Carolina Sandhills Gamelands

image of Doellingeria sericocarpoides, Pocosin Flat-top Aster, Southern Whitetop, Streamhead Flat-top Aster, Southern Flat-top Aster

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

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)

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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

 

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