Carolina Woollywhite

Hymenopappus scabiosaeus L'Her. Hymenop. 1. 1788
Rothia caroliniensis Lam. Jour. Hist. Nat. 1: 17. 1792. Hymenopappus laxifloriis L'Her.; DC. Prodr. 5: 658, as synonym. 1836. Hymenopappus caroliniensis Porter, Mem. Torrey Club 5: 338. 1894.
A leafy-stemmed biennial; stem 3-7 dm. high, angled, often pui-plish, glabrate or sparingly floccose, corymbosely branched; leaves alternate, the earlier ones oblanceolate, merely cleft or sometimes nearly entire; stem-leaves once or twice pinnatifid with linear or sometimes oblong divisions, 5-15 cm. long, sparingly floccose, green and glabrate above, grayish-floccose beneath; heads corymbose; involucre 7-8 mm. high, 10-15 mm. broad; bracts obovate, mostly bright-white; corollas ochroleucous ; tube about 2 mm. long; throat campanulate, 1.5 mm. long; lobes oblong, about as long as the throat; anthers and a part of filaments exserted; achenes obconic, 4 mm. long, short-hirsute; squamellae less than 1 mm. long.
Type locality: South Carolina.
Distribution: South Carolina to Kansas, Texas, and Florida.