Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Conoclinium coelestinum
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Mistflower at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
See Wooten & Clewell (1971) for discussion and illustrations of Fleischmannia incarnata and Conoclinium coelestinum.
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PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Conoclinium coelestinum
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Conoclinium coelestinum
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America
Conoclinium coelestinum
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-34-024:
Eupatorium coelestinum FAMILY Asteraceae__
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Conoclinium coelestinum
COMMON NAME:
Mistflower, Wild Ageratum, Hardy Ageratum
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_c_coelestinum_10_0_1
August Floyd County GA
Each bell-shaped head, about 0.2" high, has 35-70 blue-purple disk flowers, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
JK Marlow jkm090905_005
September Pickens County SC
(Pollinator at work) Involucral bracts awl-shaped, purple-tipped, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
JK Marlow jkm081001_017
October Greenville County SC
Disk flowers blue-purple; heads discoid, numerous in terminal corymbs, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
JK Marlow s081004_a
October Greenville County SC
Leaves are triangular, blunt-toothed, stalked, and opposite, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
JK Marlow jkm0511c_17
November Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Pappus a tuft of whitish bristles, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Conoclinium coelestinum
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Conoclinium coelestinum
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Conoclinium coelestinum
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America
Conoclinium coelestinum
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-34-024:
Eupatorium coelestinum
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Conoclinium coelestinum