Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Pityopsis graminifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Note that this is not the "Heterotheca graminifolia" from Radford, Ahles & Bell (1968). Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pityopsis graminifolia var. graminifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Pityopsis graminifolia
INCLUDED WITHIN Taxonomic synopsis of Pityopsis (Asteraceae) (Nesom, 2019)
Pityopsis microcephala
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Pityopsis graminifolia var. graminifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Pityopsis graminifolia var. graminifolia
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Chrysopsis graminifolia var. graminifolia
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)
Chrysopsis graminifolia var. microcephala
INCLUDED WITHIN A biosystematic study of Heterotheca section Pityopsis (Bowers, 1972)
Heterotheca microcephala var. microcephala
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-51-003b?:
Heterotheca nervosa var. microcephala FAMILY Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Pityopsis microcephala
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Heterotheca graminifolia
COMMON NAME:
Narrowleaf Silkgrass, Grassleaf Goldenaster
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_chgr14_001_lvd
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Carrie Hannah Penn chp_p_graminifolia_flower
August DeKalb County GA
Stone Mountain Park
Its sericeous peduncles, small involucre, and reduced distal cauline leaves...
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Carrie Hannah Penn chp_p_graminifolia_plant
August DeKalb County GA
Stone Mountain Park
... are similar to var. tenuifolia, per Flora of North America.
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Carrie Hannah Penn chp_p_graminifolia_whole
August DeKalb County GA
Stone Mountain Park
Stem leaves reduced upwards, only slightly overlapping; lower lvs to 20mm wide, per Weakley's Flora.
COMPARE
Grass-leaved Golden-asters
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JK Marlow jkm181110_5678
November Horry County SC
Myrtle Beach State Park
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JK Marlow jkm181110_5679
November Horry County SC
Myrtle Beach State Park
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JK Marlow jkm181110_5681
November Horry County SC
Myrtle Beach State Park
Small-headed... Phyllaries all similar, linear-triangular, evenly imbricate, per Weakley's Flora (2020).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Pityopsis graminifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pityopsis graminifolia var. graminifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Pityopsis graminifolia
INCLUDED WITHIN
Taxonomic synopsis of Pityopsis (Asteraceae) (Nesom, 2019)
Pityopsis microcephala
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Pityopsis graminifolia var. graminifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Pityopsis graminifolia var. graminifolia
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Chrysopsis graminifolia var. graminifolia
INCLUDED WITHIN
Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)
Chrysopsis graminifolia var. microcephala
INCLUDED WITHIN
A biosystematic study of Heterotheca section Pityopsis (Bowers, 1972)
Heterotheca microcephala var. microcephala
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-51-003b?:
Heterotheca nervosa var. microcephala
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Pityopsis microcephala
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Heterotheca graminifolia
3511
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, other dry woodlands, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon (rare in NC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual/ Ray flowers pistillate
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p225?
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p267
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p282
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