Index / Search / Boltonia asteroides
§1 Plant
Boltonia asteroides (L.) L'Hér.
vernacular white doll's daisy — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Boltonia
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 144 counties across 18 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 80 min.
- Precipitation
- 22–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.3–7
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 8 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 2,063,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 144 counties across 18 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Bossier 22015
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Feliciana 22037
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Iberville 22047
- Jackson 22049
- LaSalle 22059
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Richland 22083
- St. Helena 22091
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Washington 22117
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
Maine view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Adams 28001
- Amite 28005
- Attala 28007
- Calhoun 28013
- Chickasaw 28017
- Choctaw 28019
- Claiborne 28021
- Clay 28025
- Grenada 28043
- Hancock 28045
- Harrison 28047
- Hinds 28049
- Humphreys 28053
- Jackson 28059
- Kemper 28069
- Lafayette 28071
- Lauderdale 28075
- Leake 28079
- Lee 28081
- Leflore 28083
- Madison 28089
- Marion 28091
- Newton 28101
- Oktibbeha 28105
- Panola 28107
- Pontotoc 28115
- Tallahatchie 28135
- Tishomingo 28141
- Washington 28151
- Wilkinson 28157
- Yalobusha 28161
New Jersey view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 6 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BOAS ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5393593 ↗Record version
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