Carphephorus tomentosus (Michx.) Torr. & A.Gray
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Asteraceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Plants 2–8 dm, the stem and generally also the lvs ± spreading-hirsute below, the hairs commonly shorter and more appressed upwards; tufted lower lvs oblanceolate or a little broader, 3.5–15 × 0.5–2 cm (petiole included); cauline lvs quickly reduced and becoming sessile, erect; heads 2–40 in an open-corymbiform, often flat-topped infl; invol campanulate, 7–11 mm, conspicuously viscid-hairy, its 20–40 bracts imbricate, firm, with rather lax or spreading, thick, often callous-pointed, acute or acutish tip; fls 15–30; achenes 3–4 mm; 2n=20. Sandy soil, especially in pine-barrens; se. Va. to S.C. and Ga. Aug.–Oct.