Chaptalia tomentosa

Ventenat

Descr. Pl. Nouv., plate 61. 1802.

Common names: Woolly sunbonnet
IllustratedEndemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 19. Treatment on page 80. Mentioned on page 79.

Leaves sessile; blades elliptic to elliptic-obovate, 5–18(–24) cm, margins denticulate, abaxial faces densely white-tomentose, adaxial faces green, glabrous or glabrate. Heads nodding in bud and fruit, erect in flowering. Peduncles ebracteate, 5–20 cm at flowering, 25–40 cm in fruit, not dilated distally. Florets: outer pistillate, corollas creamy white (with purple, abaxial midstripe), laminae 0.9–1.5 mm wide; inner florets functionally staminate. Cypselae 3.8–5.1 mm, beaks stout, lengths 0.2–0.25 times bodies, faces (bodies only) glabrous, beaks hairy (hairs spreading-ascending, swollen-apiculate). 2n = 48.


Phenology: Flowering Dec–Apr(–May in North Carolina).
Habitat: Coastal plain pinelands, sandy soils in grass-sedge bogs, along ditches, open areas, thin woods
Elevation: 0–50 m

Distribution

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Ala., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tex.

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Chaptalia tomentosa"
Guy L. Nesom +
Ventenat +
Woolly sunbonnet +
Ala. +, Fla. +, Ga. +, La. +, Miss. +, N.C. +, S.C. +  and Tex. +
0–50 m +
Coastal plain pinelands, sandy soils in grass-sedge bogs, along ditches, open areas, thin woods +
Flowering Dec–Apr(–May in North Carolina). +
Descr. Pl. Nouv., plate +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
Compositae +
Chaptalia tomentosa +
Chaptalia +
species +