Chaptalia tomentosa
Descr. Pl. Nouv., plate 61. 1802.
Common names: Woolly sunbonnet
IllustratedEndemic
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
Ala., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tex.
Discussion
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white-tomentose +
green +
tailed +
introrse +
connate +
acute +
scarious +
lanceolate +
hirsute +
papillate +
continuous +
cuneate +
stout +
hairy +
elliptic;elliptic-obovate +
ribbed;smooth +
stigmatic +
barbellulate +
absent +
Woolly sunbonnet +
creamy white +
reduced +
monomorphic +
3.8mm;5.1mm +
straight +
not glandular +
glabrous +
distinct +
proximal +
1;5 +
dispersed +
Coastal plain pinelands, sandy soils in grass-sedge bogs, along ditches, open areas, thin woods +
singly +
indeterminate +
Present +
staminate +
bisexual +
staminate +
surrounding +
cylindric;campanulate +
0.9mm;1.5mm +
sessile +
alternate +
basal +
lacking +
serrulate +
denticulate +
scarious +
pistillate +
2-carpellate +
inferior +
attached +
anatropous +
persistent +
absent +
ebracteate +
dilated +
tough +
thick +
connate +
persistent +
herbaceous +
falling +
unequal +
Descr. Pl. Nouv., plate +
1802 +
epaleate +
glabrous +
foveolate +
flat;convex +
fibrous +
exalbuminous +
modifed +
1;2 +
alternate +
2-branched +
papillate +
Chaptalia tomentosa +
Chaptalia +
species +
perennial +
dense +