Pityopsis falcata
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Photo Courtesy Renee Brecht |
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database |
| Botanical name: | Pityopsis falcata |
| Common name: | sickleleaf aster |
| Group: | dicot |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Growth type: | forb/herb |
| Duration: | perennial |
| Origin: | native |
| Plant height: | 6-15" |
| Foliage: | Similar to Chrysopsis mariana but smaller. Leaves and stems white-woolly; stiff, small, narrow, linear, curved or sickle shaped leaves. |
| Flower: | 3/4" across |
| Flowering time: | flowers July-early September |
| Habitat: | open stretches of white sand on eastern edges of pine barrens |
| Range in New Jersey: | local in the Pine Barrens |
| Heritage ranking, if any: | S3 |
| Distribution: |  |
| Misc. | Stone, in 1910, says, "Locally in dry sands of the Pine Barrens;
not common. This plant prefers bare open stretches of white sand, where Arenaria caroliniana, Lechea racemulosa and Hudsonia ericoides are
found. Many such areas around the sites of forver forges or wayside
inns are now appropriated by these plants, such as at Quaker Bridge,
Speedwell, etc."(741) |