Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
The genus Pityopsis has been split from Chrysopsis (the golden-asters) and from Heterotheca (camphorweeds) by the silky, silvery, appressed hairs on leaves and stems. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Pityopsis aspera var. adenolepis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pityopsis aspera var. adenolepis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDING
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-51-002:
Heterotheca adenolepis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDING (MISAPPLIED)
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968)
Heterotheca graminifolia
INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Chrysopsis graminifolia var. aspera
COMMON NAME:
Carolina Silkgrass, Pineland Silkgrass, Grassleaf Goldenaster
To see a detailed map, click here
Look for it in dry woodlands, forests, and disturbed places, apparently in NC Mountains only in the Escarpment, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common in Piedmont, uncommon in Coastal Plain, rare in NC-SC Mountains
...Dry
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual/ Ray flowers pistillate
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Reddish-brown/Black
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers p225?
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South p169
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p157
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p110?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p307?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p356
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