Oclemena reticulata (pine barren whitetop aster)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Oclemena reticulata, photographed by Leila Dasher — fig. a Leila Dasher, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-12 / obs. 197171042

Oclemena reticulata, photographed by nataliekrops — fig. b nataliekrops, CC0 1.0 / obs. 165817654

Oclemena reticulata, photographed by Arturo Santos — fig. c Arturo Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 146679869

Oclemena reticulata, photographed by novvictan — fig. d novvictan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118791979

Oclemena reticulata, photographed by Nash Turley — fig. g Nash Turley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 97436173

Oclemena reticulata, photographed by Daniel Estabrooks — fig. h Daniel Estabrooks, CC0 1.0 / obs. 68505959

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Native distribution of Oclemena reticulata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Alabama	ALA	NORTHERN AMERICA
Florida	FLA
Georgia	GEO
South Carolina	SCA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 446 in flower of 471 examined

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56%

92%

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91%

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93%

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94%

Proportion of examined Oclemena reticulata in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	6	8	75%	41% to 93%
Feb	5	9	56%	27% to 81%
Mar	44	48	92%	80% to 97%
Apr	157	161	98%	94% to 99%
May	69	74	93%	85% to 97%
Jun	32	35	91%	78% to 97%
Jul	30	30	100%	89% to 100%
Aug	14	15	93%	70% to 99%
Sep	21	22	95%	78% to 99%
Oct	34	34	100%	90% to 100%
Nov	19	19	100%	83% to 100%
Dec	15	16	94%	72% to 99%

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Oclemena reticulata observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 446 of 471 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Aster dichotomus Elliott
Aster obovatus (Nutt.) Elliott
Aster reticulatus Pursh
Chrysopsis obovata Nutt.
Diplopappus obovatus (Nutt.) Torr. & A.Gray
Diplostephium boreale Spreng.
Diplostephium dichotomum DC.
Diplostephium obovatum DC.
Doellingeria obovata (Nutt.) Nees
Doellingeria reticulata (Pursh) Greene

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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