Chaptalia

Plant Characteristics
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Scientific Names

Read about Chaptalia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Chaptalia (J. A. C. Chaptal, 1756-1831, agricultural chemist). Compositae. Low perennial herbs, with white or purplish fls. on naked scapes, blooming in spring and summer: heads radiate, the ray-fls. pistillate, and the disk-fls. perfect, but some or all of them sterile; involucre campanulate or turbinate, of appressed and imbricated bracts; pappus of soft capillary bristles: achenes oblong or fusiform, narrowed above, 5-nerved. —Twenty-five American species. The only species in the American trade is C. tomentosa, Vent. (Thyrsanthema semiflosculare, Kuntze), of N. C. and south. Of this the scape is 1 ft. or less high, and the heads are purple-rayed: lvs. oblong or oblanceolate, more or less remotely denticulate, rather thick, white-tomentose beneath. Intro, as a border plant. B. M. 2257. N. Tatlor. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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