Boltonia decurrens

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Threatened

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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]

Physical Description

Habitat

Open alluvial soils in wet prairies, shallow marshes, open river creek and lake shores ; of conservation concern; 100-200 m [2].

Biology

Growth

Culture: Space 24-36" apart.

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b. (map)

Taxonomy

Synonyms

B. asteroides (Linnaeus) L&nbsp • B. latisquama A. Gray var. decurrens (Torrey & A. Gray) Fernald & Griscom • Boltonia asteroides var. decurrens (Torr. & Gray) Fern. • Boltonia glastifolia Michaux [not (Hill) L&nbsp • Boltonia glastifolia Michx. Var. decurrens Torr. & A. Gray • Boltonia latisquama var. decurrens (Torr. & Gray) Fern. & Grisc. • ritier var. decurrens (Torrey & A. Gray) Engelmann Ex A. Gray • ritier ] Var. decurrens Torrey & A. Gray

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Data Providers: Govaerts World Compositae Checklist A-G, Tropicos. GCC LSID: urn :lsid:compositae.org:names:8E7AE86C-4FBF-43FA-B3A4-3EF862BB3D37

Last scrutiny: 03-Sep-09

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

• An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions: from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian / by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Hon. Addison Brown. New York: Scribner, 1913. url p. 405.
• Erigenia: journal of the Illinois Native Plant Society. Carbondale, Ill.: The Society, 1982- url p. 17, p. 21, p. 51, p. 8.
• Flora of Illinois, containing keys for identification of flowering plants and ferns. Notre Dame, Ind., University of Notre Dame Press, 1963. url p. 246.
• Flora of the southeastern United States; being descriptions of the seed-plants, ferns and fern-allies growing naturally in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and in Oklahom by John Kunkel Small. New York, The author, 1913. url p. 1204.
• Illinois River Bluffs area assessment / Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Office of Scientific Research and Analysis, [and the] State Geological Survey Division. Springfield, Ill.: Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources, 1998- url p. 144, p. 145, p. 146, p. 159, p. 25, p. 30, p. 31.
• List of Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta growing without cultivation in northeastern North America. Prepared by a Committee of the Botanical Club, American Association for the Advancement of Science. New York, 1894. url p. 322.
• Manual of the flora of the northern states and Canada / by Nathaniel Lord Britton. New York: Holt, 1905. url p. 945.
• Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club. 5 1893 - 18 Durham, N.C.: Published for the Club by the Seeman Printery, 1889- url p. 322.
• Small, J. K. Flora of the southeastern United States;being descriptions of the seed-plants, ferns and fern-allies growing naturally in North Carolina, South Carolin, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and the Indian territory and in Oklahoma and Texas east of the one-hundredth meridian /by John Kunkel Small. .. 1903 New York: The author, 1903. url p. 1204.
• The American botanist and florist: including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants: together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the Americ by Alphonso Wood. New York: A. S. Barnes, 1877, c1870. url p. 166.
• The Florists' exchange: a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. New York, N.Y.: [A.T. De la Mare Ptg. and Pub. Co., url p. 599.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url p. 89.
• The Stephen A. Forbes collections at the Illinois Natural History Survey, 1858-1994: Annual report 1994. [Champaign, Ill.]: Illinois Natural History Survey, [1994] url p. 263.
• The changing Illinois environment: critical trends: technical report of the Critical Trends Assessment Project. Springfield, Ill.: Ill. Dept. of Energy and Natural Resources, 1994. url p. 15.
• World Plant Conservation Bibliography WCMC, Royal Botanic Gardens url p. 562, p. 563, p. 573.
• 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.
• "Boltonia decurrens". in Flora of North America Vol. 20 Page 354, 356, 357. Published by Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Center for Plant Conservation Plant Profile for Boltonia decurrens. Accessed January 15, 2007.
• GCC: Global Compositae Checklist. Release date: November 18, 2009
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 26, 2008)

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:

• Missouri Botanical Garden
• USDA PLANTS: USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2664908
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-6130
• GRIN Nomen Number: 315882
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 196243
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDAST1E040
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Species Identifier: Q26A
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: BOLAD
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 24939

Footnotes

1. 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]
2. "Boltonia decurrens". in Flora of North America Vol. 20 Page 354, 356, 357. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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