Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
NC's most robust silkgrass, with basal leaves 6-12" long and 10-20mm wide. Note the lack of stalked glands on upper stem and inflorescence branches. 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 nervosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pityopsis graminifolia var. latifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDING
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-51-003a:
Heterotheca nervosa var. nervosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDING
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968)
Heterotheca correllii
INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Chrysopsis graminifolia
COMMON NAME:
Common Silkgrass, Grassleaf Goldenaster
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Look for it in longleaf pine sandhills, dry woodlands and forests (such as ridgetop pine/heath communities in the Mountains), roadbanks, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common (rare in Mountains)
...Dry
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual/ Ray flowers pistillate
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers p225?
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p144?
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South p169
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p136?
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p109?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p307?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p356?
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p423
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p196?
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p059
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