Elephantopus carolinianus Willd.

• 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

  Elephantopus carolinianus Willd.

• Description

  Species Description - Stems 3–10 dm, densely hirsute below, usually divaricately branched above and with numerous glomerules; lvs or most of them cauline, broadly elliptic to obovate, 9–25 × 3–10 cm, crenate, pilose beneath; glomerules 10–15 mm; bracts triangular-ovate, often longer than the glomerules; invol 8–10 mm, its bracts acuminate, resinous, thinly strigose; pappus- bristles gradually dilated into a narrowly triangular base; 2n=22. Dry woods; N.J. to O., Ill., and Kans., s. to Fla., Tex., and W.I. Aug., Sept.

• Common Names

  leafy elephant's foot