Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Croptilon divaricatum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Read more about Scratch-daisy at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Croptilon divaricatum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Croptilon divaricatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Croptilon divaricatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-48-001:
Haplopappus divaricatus FAMILY Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Isopappus divaricatus
COMMON NAME:
Scratch-daisy, Goldenweed, Slender Scratch-daisy
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October Dorchester County SC
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October Dorchester County SC
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October Dorchester County SC
Involucres cylindric to turbinate, 4-6mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
COMPARE
involucral bracts of DYCs with ray and disc flowers
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Croptilon divaricatum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Croptilon divaricatum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Croptilon divaricatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Croptilon divaricatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-48-001:
Haplopappus divaricatus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Isopappus divaricatus
2749
Forb
Annual
Habitat: Sandy or otherwise dry soils of fields, roadsides, longleaf pine sandhill woodlands, and sand pine woodlands, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (uncommon in SC Mountains & NC Piedmont) (rare in GA Mountains)
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LEAVES:
Simple
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p171
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005) p046
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p283
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p072
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p324