Rudbeckia mollis

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Family:ASTERACEAE
Species:Rudbeckia mollis Elliott
Common Name:Soft Hair Coneflower; Woolly Coneflower
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Growth Habit:Herb
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Category:Vascular
USDA Symbol:RUMO
Plant Notes:Soft Hair Coneflower is a native annual, biennial, or short-lived perennial in the Sunflower family (Asteraceae). It can be found in extreme southeast Alabama. Soft Hair Coneflower occurs in sandhills, in xeric sandy pine woods, and in disturbed sandy roadside clearings. It has a tap root. Soft Hair Coneflower has stems that are 1-3 feet in height, woolly pubescent, and branched or simple. The stems are leafy throughout. Leaves are alternate, basal (forming a rosette absent at flowering) and cauline. Basal leaves are petiolate, oblong in outline, softly pilose to woolly, and gland-dotted. Stem leaves are alternate, sessile, elliptic to pandurate in outline, entire or serrate, softly pilose to woolly, and gland-dotted. The leaf bases on stem leaves are cuneate to auriculate. Flowers are produced in heads. The heads are arranged in corymbiform arrays. Each head has 10-16 yellow-orange ray flowers and 200-400 purple disc flowers. The fruit is an achene. Soft Hair Coneflower is listed as an S1 species in Alabama (typically 5 or fewer occurrences, very few remaining individuals, or some factor of its biology making it especially vulnerable in the state), and Globally as a G3G5 species (G3-imperiled globally because of rarity (6 - 20 occurrences, or few remaining acres, or miles of stream) or very vulnerable to extinction throughout its range because of other factors; G5-demonstrably secure globally, though it may be quite rare in parts of its range, especially at the periphery). Soft Hair Coneflower is a host plant for the caterpillars of Silvery Checkerspot (Chlosyne nycteis) and Gorgone Checkerspot (Chlosyne gorgone) butterflies.—A. Diamond
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Status:Native, S1 (State Rank), G3G5 (Global Rank)
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Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

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Classification

FamilyASTERACEAE - Aster family
Genus Rudbeckia
Species Rudbeckia mollis Elliott - Soft Hair Coneflower; Woolly Coneflower

Citation

Citation Rudbeckia mollis Elliott, Sketch Bot. S. Carolina 2: 453–454. 1823.
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Type: USA: GEORGIA:

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Synonyms

No synonyms exist for this species.

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: Bibb, Clarke, Henry, Houston, Lowndes, Tuscaloosa

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, AUA, TROY, UNA, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: -

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
AUA000007006 Henry 1 Aug 1997 Diamond, Alvin R.
10429		 AUA
Rudbeckia Mollis Ell.
UWAL0033723 Clarke 30 May 2016 Keener, Brian R.
9648		 UWAL
Rudbeckia mollis Elliott
TROY000035405 Henry 25 Jul 2012 Diamond, Alvin R.
23196		 TROY
Rudbeckia mollis Elliott
TROY000051336 Clarke 30 May 2016 Keener, Brian R.
9648		 TROY
Rudbeckia mollis Elliott
UWAL0011026 Henry 25 Jul 2012 Diamond, Alvin R.
23196		 UWAL
Rudbeckia mollis Elliott
UWAL0030948 Henry 30 Jun 1991 Kral, Robert
79308		 UWAL
Rudbeckia mollis Ell.
ALNHS00006657 Henry 01 Aug 2019 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#4730		 ALNHS
Rudbeckia mollis Ell.
AUA000007005 Bibb 25 Jun 1979 Beckett, Scott W.
181		 AUA
Rudbeckia Mollis Ell.
AUA000007010 Tuscaloosa 9 Jul 1970 Moore, Harold D.
280		 AUA
Rudbeckia Mollis Ell.
AUA000007009 Lowndes 20 Aug 1970 Moore, Harold D.
786		 AUA
Rudbeckia Mollis Ell.
AUA000007008 Houston 12 Aug 1973 Kral, Robert
51194		 AUA
Rudbeckia Mollis Ell.
UNA00056086 Henry 15 Aug 1998 MacDonald, John R.
11768		 UNA
Rudbeckia mollis Ell.
AUA000007007 Henry 5 Jul 1990 Diamond, Alvin R.
7005		 AUA
Rudbeckia Mollis Ell.
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