Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Doellingeria infirma
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Doellingeria infirma
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Doellingeria infirma
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-040:
Aster infirmus FAMILY Asteraceae
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Doellingeria infirma
COMMON NAME:
Appalachian Flat-topped White Aster, Cornel-leaf Aster, Cornel-leaf Whitetop Aster, Appalachian Whitetop Aster
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_doin2_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm230717_4487
July Greenville County SC
Landrum Watershed
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JK Marlow jkm230717_4488
July Greenville County SC
Landrum Watershed
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JK Marlow jkm230717_4490
July Greenville County SC
Landrum Watershed
Phyllaries erect, lanceolate to deltate, unequal, apices narrowly rounded, per Flora of North America.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of North American asters
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JK Marlow jkm230717_4495
July Greenville County SC
Landrum Watershed
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_d_infirma_0003
July Iredell County NC
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_d_infirma_0024
July Iredell County NC
A smaller plant than D. umbellata, with a more open inflorescence, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm190801_0379
August Buncombe County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Stems ascending to erect, slightly to strongly flexuous, striate, glabrous, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm190801_0380
August Buncombe County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Leaf bases cuneate, apices acuminate, margins finely ciliate, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm190801_0381
August Buncombe County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Inflorescence branches flexuous, bractless or with a few very small bracts, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
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JK Marlow jkm190801_0449
August Buncombe County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm190801_0451
August Buncombe County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Midcauline blades 1-nerved, venation brochidodromous [secondary veins forming a series of arches, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm190801_0455
August Buncombe County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm210824_2997
August Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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JK Marlow jkm210903_3268
September Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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JK Marlow jkm210903_3268b
September Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_d_infirma_4b
October
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Doellingeria infirma
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Doellingeria infirma
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Doellingeria infirma
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-040:
Aster infirmus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Doellingeria infirma
156
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Woodland borders, dry or dry-mesic woodlands, glades, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (uncommon in GA Piedmont) (rare in Coastal Plain)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: White
Disc: Pale yellow, cream?
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads in loose corymbs
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p116
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p462
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p178
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p073
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p289
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p338
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p212
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