Flora of North America species comparison

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Chaptalia tomentosa

woolly sunbonnet
Leaves

sessile;

blades elliptic to elliptic-obovate, 5–18(–24) cm, margins denticulate, abaxial faces densely white-tomentose, adaxial faces green, glabrous or glabrate.
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.
Heads

nodding in bud and fruit, erect in flowering.
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.

Chaptalia tomentosa
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 (0–200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; SC; TX
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Source FNA vol. 19, p. 80.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Mutisieae > Chaptalia
Sibling taxa
C. albicans, C. texana
Name authority Ventenat: Descr. Pl. Nouv., plate 61. (1802)
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