Pityopsis aspera (Shuttlw. ex Small) Small  
Family: Asteraceae
Pineland Silk-Grass
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John C. Semple in Flora of North America (vol. 20)
Perennials, 20-50 cm; rhizomes 1-20 cm. Stems usually 1, erect, green to brown distally, simple, slender, proximally silky-sericeous, distal 2 / 3 sometimes densely stipitate-glandular. Leaves: basal overwintering, in rosettes (at ends of short rhizomes), ascending to spreading, blades linear-oblanceolate, 50-250(-350) × 5-10 mm, margins sometimes stipitate-glandular, apices acute, faces sparsely to densely silky-sericeous; cauline ascending, linear, greatly reduced distally, margins sparsely to densely stipitate-glandular, sparsely sericeous, glabrescent, or densely stipitate-glandular; proximal 30-120 × 2-10 mm, distal 20-50 × 1-3 mm, sometimes glabrate. Heads (4-)10-79, in corymbiform arrays. Peduncles 1-7, 1-6 cm, densely stipitate-glandular, glabrescent; bracteoles linear, stipitate-glandular. Involucres turbinate, 4.5-8 mm (shorter than mature pappi). Phyllaries in 5-7 series, margins fimbriate, sparsely piloso-ciliate, moderately so distally (green zones in distal 1 / 2 ), apices acute, sometimes long piloso-ciliate distally, faces moderately stipitate-glandular. Ray florets 6-10; laminae 4-6 mm. Disc florets 15-45; corollas 4-5.5 mm, proximal throats glabrate to sparsely short-pilose, lobes 0.5 mm, glabrous to sparsely pilose. Cypselae fusiform, 2-3 mm, ribbed, faces strigose; pappi: outer of linear to linear-triangular scales 0.5-1 mm, inner of 25-35 bristles 5-6 mm. Pityopsis aspera grows on the outer coastal plain.

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