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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Liatrinae
  8. Chaffheads

genus

Chaffheads

Carphephorus

Traits
Includes
5 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Carphephorus is a genus of North American plants in the family Asteraceae. They are native to the southeastern United States from Louisiana to Virginia. Plants of this genus are known commonly as chaffheads.

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Children

  • Coastalplain Chaffhead native
  • Sandywoods Chaffhead native
  • Bristleleaf Chaffhead native
  • Pineland Chaffhead native
  • Woolly Chaffhead native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native chaffheads All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Coastalplain Chaffhead Carphephorus corymbosus caterpillars 1 flowers 49
  • Sandywoods Chaffhead Carphephorus bellidifolius flowers 4
  • Pineland Chaffhead Carphephorus carnosus flowers 3
  • Bristleleaf Chaffhead Carphephorus pseudoliatris flowers 1
  • Woolly Chaffhead Carphephorus tomentosus

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