Carphephorus bellidifolius

Plants 20-60 cm. Stems glabrous or glabrate (except peduncles), eglandular. Leaves: basal and proximal cauline usually ob-lanceolate, sometimes nearly spatulate, mostly 4-20 cm; cauline gradually reduced, faces gland-dotted. Heads in open, loose, usually corymbiform, sometimes paniculiform, arrays. Peduncles minutely puberulent (viscid, hairs not glandular). Involucres 7-12(-15) mm. Phyllaries 15-40+ in 3-5+ series, broadly elliptic to elliptic-obovate, glabrous, eglandular (except margins ciliate), apices rounded. Receptacles paleate (at least peripherally). Corollas eglandular, lobes 1.5-2.5 mm. Cypselae minutely sessile-glandular; pappus bristles in 1(-2) series. 2n = 20.

Flowering Jul-Oct. Dunes, sandhills, sandy rises in flatwoods, sandy fields, roadsides, weedy banks, open pine, scrub oak, and turkey oak-pine woods; 10-40 m; Ga., N.C., S.C., Va.

Resembling no. 1 [Carphephorus tomentosus (Michx.) Torr. & A. Gray], but glabrous or subglabrous below the puberulent and often more ample infl; invol bracts ca 15-30, merely ciliate- margined, not especially thick, broadly rounded above; achenes 4-6 mm; 2n=20. Sandy soil, especially in pine-barrens; se. Va. to Ga. Aug.-Oct.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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