Doellingeria sericocarpoides (common names the southern tall flat-topped aster, southern whitetop aster, and Pocosin flat-topped aster) is a North American perennial forb native to the eastern United States. It ranges from eastern Texas and southeastern Oklahoma to northern Florida north as far as New York State, though uncommon in the northern part of that range.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Southern Whitetop being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Doellingeria
- Species
- Doellingeria sericocarpoides
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