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by Renee Brecht |
USDA-NRCS
PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An
illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British
Possessions. Vol. 3: 373. |
| Botanical name: |
Pityopsis
falcata (Pursh) Nutt.
| Common
name: |
sickleaf aster |
| Synonomy: | Chrysopsis falcata (Pursh) Elliot H
Heterotheca falcata (Pursh) V.L. Harms |
| Group: |
dicot |
| Family: |
Asteraceae |
| Growth
Type: |
forb/herb |
| Duration: |
perennial |
| Origin: |
native |
| Plant
height: |
6-15" |
| Foliage: |
Similar to Chrysopsis mariana but smaller. Leaves and stems
white-woolly; stiff, small, narrow, linear, curved or sickle shaped
leaves. |
| Flowers: | 3/4" across |
| Flowering/fruiting time |
flowers July-early September |
| Habitat: |
open stretches of white sand on eastern edges of pine barrens |
| Range
in
New Jersey: |
local in the Pine Barrens |
| Heritage ranking if any: |
S3 |
| Distribution: |
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| Misc.: |
Stone, in 1910, says, "Locally in dry sands of the Pine Barrens;
not common. This plant prefers bare open stretches of white sand, where
Arenaria caroliniana, Lechea racemulosa and Hudsonia ericoides are
found. Many such areas around the sites of forver forges or wayside
inns are now appropriated by these plants, such as at Quaker Bridge,
Speedwell, etc."(741)
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