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Common Names
Common Names in English:
White Doll's Daisy, White Doll's-Daisy
Description
Family Compositae
The largest family of flowering plants , the Compositae (Asteraceae), comprising about 1,100 genera and more than 20,000 species and characterized by many small flowers arranged in a head looking like a single flower and subtended by an involucre of bracts. A head may consist of both ray flowers and disk flowers, as in the sunflower, of disk flowers only, as in the burdock, or of ray flowers only, as in the dandelion.
Genus Boltonia
Perennials
, 30-200+ cm (rhizomatous
, stoloniferous
, or with basal offshoots
). Stems erect
to ascending
, branched distally (ribbed
), glabrous
. Leaves basal (withering by flowering) and cauline; alternate; sessile (sometimes decurrent) ; blades
1-nerved, linear
, subulate
to lanceolate or oblanceolate
(bases
attenuate, cauline sometimes decurrent), margins
entire to serrulate
(teeth callous-tipped), (apices acute to acuminate) faces
glabrous. Heads radiate
, (10-100+) in leafy, corymbiform
or paniculiform
arrays. ( Peduncles bracteate
or ebracteate
, bracts leaflike or scalelike .) Involucres hemispheric
, (2-5 ×) 3-14 mm.
Phyllaries 30-55 in 3-6 series, 1-nerved (midribs
thickened, resinous
; flat), linear to oblanceolate or spatulate
, unequal to subequal
, margins ± membranaceous
, faces glabrous. Receptacles conic to hemispheric, obscurely pitted
, epaleate. Ray florets 20-60, pistillate
, fertile
; corollas white to lilac (laminae
linear to elliptic
). Disc florets 50-400+, bisexual
, fertile; corollas yellow, tubes
shorter than funnelform
throats
, lobes
5, erect, triangular; style-branch appendages
deltate. Cypselae dimorphic
(brownish) ; ray ± triquetrous
, margins arrowly winged
, ribs
2 abaxial
, 1 adaxial
; disc obovoid to cuneate or obcordiform, laterally compressed
, margins winged or not, resin ducts
present, faces often puberulent
; pappi persistent
, usually of 2-3 sclerified awns
plus (0-) 7-12 shorter bristles
or scales
in 1 series. x = 9.
Species 5: North America.[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
)
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
)
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
)
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
)
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
)
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
)
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
(
)
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Asterales
(
)
- Lindley, 1833
- Family:
Compositae
(
)
- Giseke, 1792, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Subfamily:
Asteroideae
(
)
- Subfamily:
Asteroideae
(
- Family:
Compositae
(
- Order:
Asterales
(
- Superorder:
Campanulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Boltonia latisquama Gray
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000
Similar Species
Members of the genus Boltonia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 14 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
B. apalachicolensis (Apalachicola Doll's Daisy) · B. asteroides (Aster-Like Boltonia) · B. asteroides var. asteroides (White Doll's Daisy) · B. asteroides var. latisquama (White Doll's-Daisy) · B. asteroides var. latisquama 'Jim Crockett' (Boltons Aster) · B. asteroides var. recognita (White Doll's-Daisy) · B. asteroides 'Nana' (Boltons Aster) · B. asteroides 'Pink Beauty' (Boltons Aster) · B. asteroides 'Snowbank' (Boltons Aster) · B. caroliniana (Carolina Boltonia) · B. decurrens (Claspingleaf Doll's Daisy) · B. diffusa (Small-Head Boltonia) · B. diffusa var. diffusa (Smallhead Doll's Daisy) · B. diffusa var. interior (Smallhead Doll's Daisy)
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Further Reading
- Morgan, J. T. 1966. A Taxonomic Study of the Genus Boltonia (Asteraceae). Ph.D. dissertation. University of North Carolina.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
Identifiers
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-526940
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13891428
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:34364-2
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 34364-2
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1132972
Footnotes
- Vesna Karaman-Castro, Lowell E. Urbatsch "Boltonia". in Flora of North America Vol. 20 Page 17,353. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
