Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (2/10/25):
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Doellingeria umbellata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata
INCLUDED WITHIN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Aster umbellatus var. umbellatus
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-041a:
Aster umbellatus var. umbellatus FAMILY Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Doellingeria umbellata
COMMON NAME:
Northern Tall Flat-top White Aster, Northern Tall Whitetop Aster, Northern Tall Flat-top Aster
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JK Marlow jkm150814_764
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Disk flowers 16-40 per head; ray flowers 5-14 per head, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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JK Marlow jkm150814_766
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Leaves mostly 4-6x as long as wide, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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JK Marlow jkm150814_768
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Leaves narrowly elliptic and entire, on short petioles, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm150814_796
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Plants with stems scattered from creeping rhizomes (forming clonal patches), per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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JK Marlow jkm150814_798
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
The inflorescence is not an umbel but a flattish corymbiform cluster, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmdumbellata_wsm1
Month Unknown Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (2/10/25):
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Doellingeria umbellata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata
INCLUDED WITHIN
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Aster umbellatus var. umbellatus
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-041a:
Aster umbellatus var. umbellatus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Doellingeria umbellata
172
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Wet meadows, pastures, bogs, fens, marshes, stream floodplains, roadbanks, to at least 1900 m, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in NC Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: White
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads in compact flat corymbs
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p115
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p116
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p123
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p462
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p179
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p115
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p073
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p289
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p338
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p212
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