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§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
· 515 counties across 35 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 515 counties across 35 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 ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 77 N ▾
- Adams 17001
- Alexander 17003
- Bond 17005
- Brown 17009
- Calhoun 17013
- Cass 17017
- Champaign 17019
- Clark 17023
- Clay 17025
- Clinton 17027
- Coles 17029
- Cook 17031
- Crawford 17033
- Cumberland 17035
- DeKalb 17037
- DuPage 17043
- Edwards 17047
- Effingham 17049
- Fayette 17051
- Franklin 17055
- Gallatin 17059
- Greene 17061
- Grundy 17063
- Hamilton 17065
- Hancock 17067
- Henderson 17071
- Henry 17073
- Iroquois 17075
- Jackson 17077
- Jasper 17079
- Jefferson 17081
- Jersey 17083
- Johnson 17087
- Kankakee 17091
- Knox 17095
- Lake 17097
- LaSalle 17099
- Lawrence 17101
- Lee 17103
- Macon 17115
- Macoupin 17117
- Madison 17119
- Marion 17121
- Marshall 17123
- Mason 17125
- Massac 17127
- McDonough 17109
- McHenry 17111
- Menard 17129
- Mercer 17131
- Monroe 17133
- Montgomery 17135
- Morgan 17137
- Peoria 17143
- Perry 17145
- Piatt 17147
- Pike 17149
- Pope 17151
- Pulaski 17153
- Randolph 17157
- Richland 17159
- Saline 17165
- Schuyler 17169
- Scott 17171
- St. Clair 17163
- Stark 17175
- Stephenson 17177
- Union 17181
- Wabash 17185
- Warren 17187
- Washington 17189
- Wayne 17191
- White 17193
- Whiteside 17195
- Will 17197
- Williamson 17199
- Winnebago 17201
Indiana view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Clark 18019
- Clay 18021
- Crawford 18025
- Daviess 18027
- Dubois 18037
- Fountain 18045
- Greene 18055
- Jasper 18073
- Jefferson 18077
- Knox 18083
- Lake 18089
- Lawrence 18093
- Montgomery 18107
- Newton 18111
- Porter 18127
- Posey 18129
- Pulaski 18131
- Spencer 18147
- Starke 18149
- Sullivan 18153
- Tipton 18159
- Vigo 18167
- Wabash 18169
- White 18181
Iowa view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Allen 20001
- Anderson 20003
- Barton 20009
- Bourbon 20011
- Butler 20015
- Chase 20017
- Chautauqua 20019
- Cherokee 20021
- Clay 20027
- Coffey 20031
- Cowley 20035
- Crawford 20037
- Doniphan 20043
- Douglas 20045
- Elk 20049
- Franklin 20059
- Greenwood 20073
- Harvey 20079
- Jackson 20085
- Labette 20099
- Leavenworth 20103
- Lyon 20111
- Marshall 20117
- McPherson 20113
- Miami 20121
- Montgomery 20125
- Neosho 20133
- Ottawa 20143
- Pottawatomie 20149
- Reno 20155
- Riley 20161
- Saline 20169
- Stafford 20185
- Washington 20201
- Wilson 20205
- Woodson 20207
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 ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Blue Earth 27013
- Carver 27019
- Cass 27021
- Chippewa 27023
- Chisago 27025
- Clay 27027
- Douglas 27041
- Goodhue 27049
- Hennepin 27053
- Houston 27055
- Isanti 27059
- Kandiyohi 27067
- Lac qui Parle 27073
- Lincoln 27081
- Lyon 27083
- Martin 27091
- Mower 27099
- Nicollet 27103
- Nobles 27105
- Otter Tail 27111
- Polk 27119
- Pope 27121
- Ramsey 27123
- Rock 27133
- Swift 27151
- Traverse 27155
- Washington 27163
- Winona 27169
- Wright 27171
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
Missouri view state ↗ 68 N ▾
- Adair 29001
- Audrain 29007
- Barry 29009
- Barton 29011
- Bates 29013
- Benton 29015
- Boone 29019
- Buchanan 29021
- Butler 29023
- Caldwell 29025
- Callaway 29027
- Cape Girardeau 29031
- Carroll 29033
- Carter 29035
- Cass 29037
- Chariton 29041
- Christian 29043
- Clark 29045
- Clay 29047
- Cooper 29053
- Dade 29057
- DeKalb 29063
- Greene 29077
- Harrison 29081
- Henry 29083
- Howard 29089
- Howell 29091
- Jackson 29095
- Jasper 29097
- Johnson 29101
- Knox 29103
- Laclede 29105
- Lafayette 29107
- Lawrence 29109
- Lewis 29111
- Lincoln 29113
- Linn 29115
- Livingston 29117
- Macon 29121
- Madison 29123
- Marion 29127
- McDonald 29119
- Mercer 29129
- Mississippi 29133
- Monroe 29137
- Montgomery 29139
- Morgan 29141
- Newton 29145
- Pemiscot 29155
- Pettis 29159
- Pike 29163
- Platte 29165
- Ralls 29173
- Randolph 29175
- Ray 29177
- Ripley 29181
- Saline 29195
- Schuyler 29197
- Scott 29201
- Shelby 29205
- St. Charles 29183
- St. Clair 29185
- St. Louis 29189
- Ste. Genevieve 29186
- Stoddard 29207
- Taney 29213
- Vernon 29217
- Wayne 29223
Nebraska view state ↗ 21 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 6 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 8 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 7 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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