CHAPTALIA TOMENTOSA

Scientific Name: Chaptalia tomentosa Vent.

Common Name: Sun-Bonnets

Family: ASTERACEAE

Scapose, cespitose perennial. Leaves in basal rosettes, elliptic to oblanceolate, 5-18 cm long, 1-4 cm wide, floccose above, white tomentose beneath, obtuse, apiculate, retrorsely-serrulate, often so minutely as to appear entire, base cuneate to attenuate. Scape 0.5-4 dm tall, floccose. Heads solitary, nodding at first, then erect. Involucres campanulate, 10-14 mm long, 11-15 mm broad; bracts imbricate, in several series. Flowers discoid and radiate; rays pistillate, 3-toothed at apex, white above, usually deep pink on back, 1-1.5 cm long; disc flowers cream colored. Nutlets grayish brown, ellipsoid, 3.5-4 mm long, 1.2-1.7 mm broad, tapered to a thick neck to 1 mm long, glabrous, ribbed, flattened, the fruit wall readily ruptured; pappus whitish tan, capillary, 4-6 mm long. March-May. Savannahs, pine barrens and sandhill ecotones; coastal plain of S.C. north into Nash and Hyde Cos. of N.C. [Ga., Fla., Ala., Miss.]
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