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Habitat: Old fields, disturbed areas, woodland borders
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Basal lvs oblanceolate, petioled, 1-4" lng. Basal & lower lvs wither early, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Stem stout at base, long hairs often in lines on the upper stem, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).
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Inflorescence a diffuse panicle w many small sharp-pointed bract-like leaves, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Involucral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, the apex acicular [needle-like], per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
Habitat: Glades and barrens over ultramafic (serpentine) or mafic (diabase) rocks
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Habitat: Moist soils
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Habitat: Mesic to dry upland forests and woodlands, swamps, wet pine flatwoods, clearings, old fields, roadsides, other disturbed areas
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Long and often horizontally spreading branches with flowering heads near or at the ends, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Less than 15 white rays (occasionally w a lavender tinge). Disk purplish-red, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Leaves thin, membranous, margins serrate to serrulate,...
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...progressively reduced distally, branch leaves abruptly smaller, margins sometimes entire, per Flora of North America.
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New vernal rosettes often developing at flowering, per Flora of North America.
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Involucres turbinate; bracts whitish with green midrib, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Disc corollas white to cream turning pink to purplish, lobes strongly reflexed, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
Habitat: Bottomlands, marshes
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Diffuse paniculiform arrays, branches spreading horizontally or arching, per Flora of North America.
Habitat: Old fields, disturbed areas, pastures
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Leaves firm, margins entire to crenulate-serrate, recurved, scabrous, per Flora of North America.
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Rays 14-20, white or blue to lavender; disc flowers yellow or red, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Involucres cylindro-campanulate. Phyllaries appressed or slightly spreading, per Flora of North America.
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Normal leaves are linear, but the foliage at flowering mostly short bractlike leaves on branches, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Leaves linear to narrowly elliptic, smooth to scabrous above, glabrous beneath, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Phyllaries oftenest with rhombic or dilated tips, per Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950).
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Involucres 4.5-6mm high [vs. those of S. racemosum var. subdumosum 3-3.6mm high], per Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950).
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Peduncles (at least some) > 2cm long, w numerous small, closely-spaced bracts mostly 1-4mm long, per Weakley's Flora (2023).