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Carphephorus bellidifolius (sandywoods chaffhead)

Synonyms: Liatris bellidifolia (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Carphephorus bellidifolius (common name Sandy-woods chaffhead) is a species of North American plants in the sunflower family. They are native to the southeastern United States in the States of Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Carphephorus bellidifolius is an herb up to 60 cm (24 inches) tall, largely without hairs. It produces an open, loose inflorescence with many small purplish flower heads containing disc florets but no ray florets.
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Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [1]  Herb

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Carolinian-South Atlantic Biosphere Reserve 310228 North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, United States      
Hobcaw Barony (North Inlet) National Estuarine Research Reserve 7585 South Carolina, United States
Moores Creek National Battlefield III 100 North Carolina, United States

Habitat Vegetation Classification

Name Location  Website 
Atlantic Coastal Plain Longleaf Sandhill Scrub United States (South Carolina, North Carolina)
Carolina Longleaf Pine / Mixed Scrub Oak Sandhill United States (North Carolina)
Fall-line Sandhills Dry Longleaf Pine Woodland United States (North Carolina, South Carolina)
Longleaf Pine / Scrub Oak Sandhill (Northern Type) United States (Virginia, North Carolina)
South Atlantic Dry Longleaf Pine Sandhill United States (South Carolina, Georgia)
South Atlantic Sandhills Subxeric Silty Longleaf Pine Woodland United States (South Carolina, Georgia)
South Carolina Central Longleaf Woodland United States (Georgia, South Carolina)
Wiregrass Gap Xeric Longleaf Pine Sand Woodland United States (South Carolina)

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0