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Chaptalia

not marked as a favorite taxon Chaptalia tomentosa Ventenat. Common name: Sunbonnets, Pineland Daisy, Night-nodding Bog-dandelion, Woolly Sunbonnets. Phenology: Dec (southwards)-May. Habitat: Pine savannas, sandhill seeps, pine flatwoods. Distribution: E. NC south s. FL and west to e. TX; allegedly disjunct in Hispaniola (Acevedo-Rodríguez & Strong 2012).

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Origin/Endemic status: Native

Synonymy ⓘ: = Fl7, FNA19, GW2, K4, POWO, RAB, S, SE1, WH3, WI, Harms (2011), Nesom (1995a), Vuilleumier (1969). Basionym: Chaptalia tomentosa Vent. 1802

Links to other floras: = Chaptalia tomentosa - FNA19

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW

Heliophily ⓘ: 8

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Erect perennial of wet pine savannas and flatwoods, sandhill seeps and wet streamhead margins.

Stems: Stem a leafless, white-woolly flowering stalk rising from the center of a basal rosette.

Leaves: Leaves basal only, elliptic to oblong-lance-shaped, 2-7 in.long, smooth above and white-hairy beneath; a few widely spaced teeth sometimes present.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Daisy-like, composite flowers (heads) solitary at top of stalk, nodding at first but soon erect; heads about 1 1/2 in. wide, consisting of narrow, white ray florets (may be pink or purple on lower surface) encircling a cream-colored central disk composed of tiny, tubular florets.

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Height: 4-16 in.

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description: Erect perennial of wet pine savannas and flatwoods, sandhill seeps and wet streamhead margins.

stems: Stem a leafless, white-woolly flowering stalk rising from the center of a basal rosette.

leaves: Leaves basal only, elliptic to oblong-lance-shaped, 2-7 in.long, smooth above and white-hairy beneath; a few widely spaced teeth sometimes present.

inflorescence:

flowers: Daisy-like, composite flowers (heads) solitary at top of stalk, nodding at first but soon erect; heads about 1 1/2 in. wide, consisting of narrow, white ray florets (may be pink or purple on lower surface) encircling a cream-colored central disk composed of tiny, tubular florets.

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native range: southeastern United States



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