Native and naturalized plants
Native and naturalized plants of the Carolinas and Georgia, eastern Tennessee and northern Florida

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Weakley's Flora ( 4/7/08 ): Asteraceae__
Sclerolepis uniflora

SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS National Database: Asteraceae__
Sclerolepis uniflora

SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Asteraceae__
179-29-001
Sclerolepis uniflora

Common Name:
Sclerolepis

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Look for it in shallow water (later sometimes stranded on shore by dropping water levels) of clay-based Carolina bays, natural lake shores, blackwater stream shores and swamps, in seepage wetlands including sea-level fens, per Weakley's Flora



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...Wet

Leaves:

Flower:
Spring/Summer
Disc: Lavender ... Rays: Absent
Bisexual

Fruit:
Summer/Fall
Black
Nutlet

To learn more about this plant, look it up in a good book!
A Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p340




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