View source for Sericocarpus asteroides

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|accepted_name=Sericocarpus asteroides
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Britton
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Sp. Aster.,
|place=150. 1832
|year=1832
}}
|common_names=Toothed white-topped aster
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Conyza asteroides
|authority=Linnaeus
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=2: 861. 1753
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster asteroides
|authority=(Linnaeus) MacMillan
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster paternus
|authority=Cronquist
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Sericocarpus;Sericocarpus asteroides
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Astereae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sericocarpus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sericocarpus asteroides]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 103
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>14–65 cm. <b>Stems</b> erect, puberulent. <b>Leaves</b>: basal persistent at flowering, winged-petiolate, blades oblanceolate to obovate or spatulate, 20–150 mm, serrate near apices, puberulent; cauline sessile, blades narrowly to broadly ovate, 10–110 × 4–30 mm, bases cuneate, margins serrate, distal becoming entire, apices acuminate to acute, faces puberulent. <b>Heads</b> 2–5 per branch, in corymbiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> 4–7 mm at flowering. <b>Peduncle</b> bracts absent. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 3–4 series, outer 2–4 mm, mid 3–5 mm, glabrate. <b>Ray</b> florets 3–7; corolla tubes 2–4 mm, laminae 2–6 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 9–20; corolla tubes 3–4 mm, lobes 0.6–2 mm. <b>Ovaries</b> fusiform-obconic, 0.8–2 mm, densely strigose; pappi: inner series 4–5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering mid summer–early fall.
|habitat=Dry sandy, clay, and shaley open soils in fields and open mixed and pine woods, road margins, eastern deciduous forest
|elevation=0–1600 m
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Miss.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p>Collections of <i>Sericocarpus asteroides</i> purportedly from Indiana and Wisconsin are of questionable provenance or chance introductions.</p>
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name=Sericocarpus asteroides
|author=
|authority=(Linnaeus) Britton
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Aster asteroides;Aster paternus
|basionyms=Conyza asteroides
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering mid summer–early fall.
|habitat=Dry sandy, clay, and shaley open soils in fields and open mixed and pine woods, road margins, eastern deciduous forest
|elevation=0–1600 m
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Miss.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. Sp. Aster.,
|publication year=1832
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V20_200.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Sericocarpus
|species=Sericocarpus asteroides
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