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Narrow-leaved White-topped Aster

(Sericocarpus linifolius)

Color Photograph: © by and courtesy of Jim Stasz @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database

Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

Sericocarpus asteroides

Toothed White-topped Aster also has flowers with only 4 to 5 rays. However the leaves are ovate with toothed outer margins, not narrow with even outer margins.

Narrow-leaved White-topped Aster (Sericocarpus linifolius)

Identification: Flowers white with very few rays (4 or 5). Flowers in a flat cluster. Leaves linear and tough. Plant 1.0 to 2.5 feet in height.

Distribution: Indiana in the west to New England in the east, southward to Georgia and Louisiana.

Habitat: Sandy soil.

Flowering period: June to September.

Narrow-leaved White-topped Aster
(Sericocarpus linifolius)

Similar Species:

Toothed White-topped Aster (Sericocarpus asteroides)

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