| Author | (Walter) H.E. Robinson | |
| Distribution | Southern outer Coastal Plain, ranging north only to Jones County.
Coastal Plain, southeastern NC to southern FL and eastern TX. | |
| Abundance | Rare to locally uncommon over its range in NC, but it can be uncommon to locally common where present in well-managed habitat. The NCNHP database has 23 records, most of which are still extant. This is a State Endangered species. | |
| Habitat | Wet longleaf Pine--Wiregrass savannas and flatwoods, often over marl or coquina limestone. |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting August-October. | |
| Identification | Stems usually are 3-6 feet tall, with lance-shaped to narrowly elliptic leaves. The whole plant is glaucescent green. The inflorescence is branched but rather narrow in outline. Each head is cylindrical, white, with 5 disk florets. When in bloom, this is one of the more striking plants of "marl savannas" in the state owing to its height and pale green foliage. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | Older texts treated it as Cacalia lanceolata.
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| Other Common Name(s) | Ovateleaf Indian-plantain, Ovateleaf Cacalia, Broadleaf Indian-plantain. Websites and references use many different common names. This website will thus go with the one used by both NatureServe and Weakley (2018). | |
| State Rank | S2 | |
| Global Rank | G4G5 | |
| State Status | [E] | |
| US Status | | |
| USACE-agcp | FACW link |
| USACE-emp | FAC link |
