Vascular Plant Herbarium

Vascular Plant Database Genus Results

Category: Dicots
Family Name: Asteraceae

Pityopsis - [maps | photos]

• Pityopsis aspera (Shuttlw. ex Small) Small var. adenolepis (Fernald) Semple & F.D. Bowers
  Common Name: Carolina silkgrass
  Synonyms:
  

         • Chrysopsis adenolepis Fernald

• Pityopsis graminifolia (Michx.) Nutt. var. graminifolia
  Common Name: narrowleaf silk grass
  Synonyms:
  

         • Chrysopsis graminifolia (Michx.) Ell.

         • Heterotheca graminifolia (Michx.) Shinners

• Pityopsis graminifolia (Michx.) Nutt. var. latifolia (Fernald) Semple & F.D. Bowers
  Common Name: narrowleaf silkgrass
  Synonyms:
  

         • Chrysopsis graminifolia (Michx.) Ell. var. latifolia Fernald

• Pityopsis ruthii (Small) Small (TN Endangered)  (Fed Listed Endangered)
  Common Name: Ruth's golden aster
  Synonyms:
  

         • Heterotheca ruthii (Small) Harms

         • Chrysopsis ruthii Small

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*Non-native taxon known to be naturalized in Tennessee

All names & statuses follow the Guide to the Vascular Plants of Tennessee (2015).
Click here for a description of rare, threatened, or endangered (RTE) status & National Wetland Indicator (NWI) status.

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