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):
Sericocarpus asteroides   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



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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image of Sericocarpus asteroides, Toothed Whitetop Aster

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4655

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Dry woodlands, thin soils around rock outcrops, longleaf pine sandhills, other dry pinelands, woodland margins, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas

Common in Coastal Plain, uncommon in NC Piedmont, rare in SC Piedmont

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LEAVES:
Simple

Leaves basally disposed, the basal leaves (these sometimes withered by flowering season) and/or lower stem leaves larger than upper stem leaves

Alternate & basal rosette

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: White
Disc: White
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile

Flower heads in flat corymbs

FRUIT:
Summer
Achene

 

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