Packera tomentosa
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Photo courtesy Renee Brecht |
Britton & Brown |
| Botanical name: | Packera tomentosa |
| Common name: | woolly ragwort |
| Group: | dicot |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Growth type: | forb/herb |
| Duration: | perennial |
| Origin: | native |
| Plant height: | 8"-28"' |
| Foliage: | stem and undersides covered with a dense wool; cauline leaves entire or toothed |
| Flower: | 1/2-1-1/4" yellow with yellow rays and disk; flat topped clusters |
| Flowering time: | April - June |
| Habitat: | coastal species found in open woods, pine barrens and clearings |
| Range in New Jersey: | local in the Pine Barrens and the Coastal Plains coast strip |
| Heritage ranking, if any: | S2 |
| Distribution: |  |
| Misc. | New Jersey is the northern limit of this plant's range. Stone, in 1910, says of this plant: " mainly of Cape May County, north on the Atlantic side to West Creek and on the bay side to Dias Creek. The discovery of this species in New Jersey seems to date from June 4, 1882, when the late Isaac Burk found it at Cape May Point. Curiously enought, it was obtained on June 30 of the same year by Mr. Albert Commons at Ocean View"(777). *Found within the Maurice River Watershed/Cumberland county |