''Hymenopappus scabiosaeus'', the Carolina woollywhite, is a North American species of flowering plant in the

daisy family The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...

. It grows in the central and southeastern United States, primarily on the

Great Plains The Great Plains (french: Grandes Plaines), sometimes simply "the Plains", is a broad expanse of flatland in North America. It is located west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains, much of it covered in prairie, steppe, an ...

an on the Coastal Plain of the Southeast. There are also isolated populations in Illinois and Indiana as well as in the state of

Coahuila Coahuila (), formally Coahuila de Zaragoza (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza), is one of the 32 states of Mexico. Coahuila borders the Mexican states of N ...

in northern Mexico. ''Hymenopappus scabiosaeus'' is a biennial herb up to 150 cm (5 feet) tall. It produces 20-100 flower heads per stem, each head with 20-80 white disc flowers but no ray flowers.Flora of North America, ''Hymenopappus scabiosaeus'' L’Héritier, 1788.
/ref> ;Varieties *''Hymenopappus scabiosaeus'' var. ''corymbosus'' (Torr. & A.Gray) B.L.Turner - Kansas, Nebraska,

Oklahoma Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...

, Texas,

*''Hymenopappus scabiosaeus'' var. ''scabiosaeus'' - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri,

, South Carolina

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