Cacalia suaveolens L.

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Asteraceae

• Scientific Name

  Cacalia suaveolens L.

• Description

  Species Description - Perennial 1–2.5 m with long, fleshy-fibrous roots, glabrous or nearly so; stem striate or grooved, simple to the infl, leafy; middle and lower lvs triangular-hastate, 5–20 cm, nearly or quite as wide, sharply toothed, conspicuously petioled; upper lvs progressively less hastate and with shorter, more winged petioles; heads in a flat-topped infl, commonly 20–40-fld, the disk 7–11 mm wide; invol 1 cm, its principal bracts 10–15, commonly with some reduced but conspicuous, loose, subulate outer ones; receptacle flat, deeply pitted; 2n=40. Riverbanks and moist low ground; R.I. and Conn., w. to se. Minn., s. to Md., Ky., Tenn., Ill., and in the mts. to Ga. July–Oct. (Synosma s.)

• Common Names

  hastate Indian-plantain