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Sericocarpus tortifolius
Also called Dixie Aster, Dixie White Top Aster, Whitetop Aster
Dixie whitetop aster is a native perennial wildflower of the southeastern US, growing in dry pine sandhills and open woodlands. It is grown in native-plant gardens rather than as a typical ornamental, and needs sun and well-drained soil.
Sericocarpus tortifolius, commonly known as the Dixie whitetop aster or the twisted-leaf white-topped aster, is a perennial forb in the family Asteraceae that is endemic to the southeastern United States.
Sericocarpus tortifolius is distributed from eastern North Carolina south to South Florida and west to eastern Louisiana. It is mostly restricted to the Coastal Plain, but is found inland on hard-rock provinces in north-central Georgia and north-central Alabama. It grows in dry to mesic longleaf pine sandhills, mesic to scrubby flatwoods, and other dry woodlands.
Narrowleaf whitetop aster · Columbian whitetop aster · Whitetop aster
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sericocarpus tortifolius by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
