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Weakley's Flora ( 4/7/08 ): Asteraceae__
Carphephorus odoratissimus var. odoratissimus

LESS THAN
PLANTS National Database: Asteraceae__
Carphephorus odoratissimus

LESS THAN
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Asteraceae__
179-31-001
Trilisa odoratissima

Common Name:
Vanilla-leaf, Deer's-tongue

Forb
Perennial

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

Look for it moist to mesic savannas and flatwoods, per Weakley's Flora

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...Moist

Leaves:
Simple
Alternate cauline & basal

Flower:
Summer/Fall
Disc: Lavender/Deep pink ... Rays: Absent
Bisexual

Fruit:
Summer/Fall
Brown/Black
Nutlet

To learn more about this plant, look it up in a good book!
A Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p251
Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p042
Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p257

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Alistair Glen gwn_carphephorusodorati2	August Pender County NC
Alistair Glen gwn_carphephorusodorati3	August Pender County NC
Alistair Glen gwn_carphephorusodoratis	August Pender County NC
JK Marlow jkm081009_090	October Dorchester County SC Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review
JK Marlow s081009_a	October Dorchester County SC Basal leaves elliptic to oblanceolate, obtuse, base attenuate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. Acknowledgments to Dixie Damrel, curator of Clemson University's Herbarium, for taxonomic review

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