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Hymenopappus scabiosaeus
Also called Old Plainsman, Wooly White, Woolly White, Whitebract Hymenopappus
Hymenopappus scabiosaeus, the Carolina woollywhite, is a North American species of flowering plant in the daisy family. It grows in the central and southeastern United States, primarily on the Great Plains an on the Coastal Plain of the Southeast. There are also isolated populations in Illinois and Indiana as well as in the state of Coahuila in northern Mexico.
Hymenopappus scabiosaeus is a biennial herb up to 150 cm (5 feet) tall. It produces 20-100 flower heads per stem, each head with 20-80 white disc flowers but no ray flowers.
Oldplainsman · Biennial woollywhite · Carrizo Sands woollywhite · Fineleaf hymenopappus · Collegeflower · Hymenopappus flavomarginatus · Hymenopappus hintoniorum · Mexican woollywhite · Newberry's hymenopappus · Ray hymenopappus · Chalk Hill hymenopappus · Woolly White
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hymenopappus scabiosaeus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
