Hypochaeris microcephala var. albiflora

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Family:ASTERACEAE
Species:Hypochaeris microcephala (Sch. Bip.) Cabrera var. albiflora (Kuntze) Cabrera
Common Name:White Flowered Cat's Ear
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Growth Habit:Herb
Duration:Biennial
Category:Vascular
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Plant Notes:White Flowered Cat's Ear is an introduced perennial member of the Aster family (Asteraceae). It is native to South America. It has been introduced into the United States, and occurs from Georgia to Texas. In Alabama, it is known from the southern-most counties of Baldwin, Mobile, and Houston. It was first collected in Alabama in 2013. White Flowered Cat's Ear occurs on roadsides, in lawns, around fields, and in disturbed woodlands. It is a perennial with a large, woody tap root. Leaves form a basal rosette, with reduced leaves on the flowering stems. Leaves are oblanceolate in outline with entire, dentate, or pinnatifid margins. Leaves are glabrous or glabrate (becoming glabrous with age). Flowering stems are 12-18 inches in length, simple or branched, and glabrous or sparsely hairy. Flowers are produced in heads. The heads are produced in panicles or corymbs. Only ray flowers are produced. The ray flowers are white. The fruit is an achene. All parts of the plant exude a milky white latex sap when damaged. White Flowered Cat's Ear is similar to the more wide-spread Brazilian Cat's Ear (Hypochaeris chillensis (Kunth) Britton). White Flowered Cat's Ear differs by having narrower involucres, phyllaries that are glabrous or sparsely pubescent, and white corollas. Brazilian Cat's Ear has broadly campanulate involucres, hirsute phyllaries, and yellow corollas.--A. Diamond
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Status:Not Native
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Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

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Classification

FamilyASTERACEAE - Aster family
Genus Hypochaeris
Species Hypochaeris microcephala (Sch. Bip.) Cabrera var. albiflora (Kuntze) Cabrera - White Flowered Cat's Ear

Citation

Citation Hypochaeris microcephala (Schultz ‘Bipontinus’) Cabrera var. albiflora (Kuntze) Cabrera, Notas Mus. La Plata, Bot. 2(16): 201. 1937..
Basionym: Hypochaeris brasiliensis var. albiflora Kuntze 1898.
Type: Argentina: Ceres, Provinz Santa Fe.

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Synonyms

SynonymFull CitationBasionymType
Hypochaeris albiflora Hypochaeris albiflora (Kuntze) Azevêdo-Gonç. & Matzenb., Compositae Newsletter 42: 3. 2005.Hypochaeris brasiliensis (Less.) Hook. & Arn. var. albiflora Kuntze  
Hypochaeris brasiliensis var. albiflora Hypochaeris brasiliensis (Less.) Hook. & Arn. var. albiflora Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum 3(3): 159. 1898. (28 Sept 1898).  Argentina: Ceres, Provinz Santa Fe.

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Baldwin, Escambia, Houston, Mobile, Washington

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, AMAL, SAMF, TROY, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: -

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
TROY000051329 Baldwin 31 May 2014 Horne, Howard E.
2560		 TROY
Hypochaeris microcephala (Sch. Bip.) Cabrera var. albiflora (Kuntze) Cabrera
UWAL0012314 Mobile 10 May 2013 Horne, Howard E.
2159		 UWAL
Hypochaeris microcephala (Schultz-Bip.) Cabrera var. albiflora (Kuntze) Cabrera
TROY000051328 Mobile 24 May 2014 Horne, Howard E.
2549		 TROY
Hypochaeris microcephala (Sch. Bip.) Cabrera var. albiflora (Kuntze) Cabrera
TROY000043449 Mobile 25 Apr 2013 Horne, Howard E.
2109		 TROY
Hypochaeris microcephala (Sch. Bip.) Cabrera var. albiflora (Kuntze) Cabrera
TROY000043453 Mobile 08 Apr 2013 Garmon, Ben
3		 TROY
Hypochaeris microcephala (Sch. Bip.) Cabrera var. albiflora (Kuntze) Cabrera
UWAL0017498 Houston 23 Apr 2015 Diamond, Alvin R.
26227		 UWAL
Hypochaeris microcephala (Sch. Bip.) Cabrera var. albiflora (Kuntze) Cabrera
UWAL0012319 Mobile 17 Apr 2013 Horne, Howard E.
2091		 UWAL
Hypochaeris microcephala (Schultz-Bip.) Cabrera var. albiflora (Kuntze) Cabrera
UWAL0012315 Mobile 05 May 2013 Horne, Howard E.
2153		 UWAL
Hypochaeris microcephala (Schultz-Bip.) Cabrera var. albiflora (Kuntze) Cabrera
ALNHS00002258 Mobile 14 May 2013 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#995		 ALNHS
Hypochaeris microcephala (Schultz ‘Bipontinus’) Cabrera var. albiflora (Kuntze) Cabrera
TROY000042087 Houston 23 Apr 2015 Diamond, Alvin R.
26227		 TROY
Hypochaeris microcephala (Sch. Bip.) Cabrera var. albiflora (Kuntze) Cabrera
UWAL0045667 Washington 28 Apr 2019 Horne, Howard E.
4789		 UWAL
Hypochaeris microcephala (Schultz-Bipontinus) Cabrera var. albiflora (Kuntze) Cabrera
AMAL00019781 Mobile 15 Mar 2013 Horne, Howard E.
2007		 AMAL
Hypochaeris microcephala (Sch. Bip.) Cabrera var. albiflora (Kuntze) Cabrera
SAMF0003505 Houston 23 Apr 2015 Diamond, Alvin R.
26227		 SAMF
Hypochaeris microcephala (Sch. Bip.) Cabrera var. albiflora (Kuntze) Cabrera
UWAL0012323 Mobile 25 Apr 2013 Horne, Howard E.
2109		 UWAL
Hypochaeris microcephala (Schultz-Bip.) Cabrera var. albiflora (Kuntze) Cabrera
ALNHS00007503 Baldwin 05 MAY 2022 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#5704		 ALNHS
Hypochaeris microcephala (Schultz-Bip.) Cabrera var. albiflora (Kuntze) Cabrera
AMAL00019782 Baldwin 29 Mar 2013 Horne, Howard E.
2049		 AMAL
Hypochaeris microcephala (Sch. Bip.) Cabrera var. albiflora (Kuntze) Cabrera
SAMF0005476 Mobile 25 Apr 2013 Horne, Howard E.
2109		 SAMF
Hypochaeris microcephala (Schultz-Bipontinus) Cabrera var. albiflora (Kuntze) Cabrera
TROY000043572 Mobile 26 Apr 2014 Burkhalter, James R.
24686		 TROY
Hypochaeris microcephala (Sch. Bip.) Cabrera var. albiflora (Kuntze) Cabrera
UWAL0016818 Baldwin 29 Mar 2013 Horne, Howard E.
2045		 UWAL
Hypochaeris microcephala (Sch. Bip.) Cabrera var. albiflora (Kuntza) Cabrera
UWAL0048310 Escambia 07 May 2016 Horne, Howard E.
3139		 UWAL
Hypochaeris microcephala (Sch. Bip.) Cabrera var. albiflora (Kuntze) Cabrera
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