| Author | (Walter) Fernald | |
| Distribution | Piedmont and northern Coastal Plain; scarce in the Sandhills region proper and in the low Mountains.
A quite small range -- southeastern VA to southern SC. Records from elsewhere are misidentifications. | |
| Abundance | Uncommon to locally fairly common in the eastern Piedmont and the northern Coastal Plain; rare in the northwestern Piedmont, Sandhills, and the Piedmont foothills and low Mountains. | |
| Habitat | Moist soils of floodplain forests, swamp forests, margins of impoundments, damp clearings, wet roadsides -- usually in full to partial sun. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting August-October. | |
| Identification | Carolina Doll's-daisy grows 4-6 feet tall with a waxy smooth stem and leaves, and lacks horizontal rhizomes (contra White Doll's-daisy [B. asteroides]). It tends to be bushier than the latter, with longer branches and a spreading inflorescence. The leaves are lance-shaped to elliptical. The ray florets are shorter than in White Doll's-daisy (3-7.5 mm long vs. 5-13 mm long). From the adventive B. diffusa, it differs in lacking wings on the seeds (vs. wings 0.1-0.5 mm wide) and awns less than 0.4 mm long (vs. 0.4-2.0 mm long). | |
| Taxonomic Comments | Some older texts lumped B. diffusa with this species, but they are distinct.
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| Other Common Name(s) | None | |
| State Rank | S3? [S3S4] | |
| Global Rank | G4? | |
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| US Status | | |
| USACE-agcp | FACW link |
| USACE-emp | FACW link |
