Chaptalia albicans

Chaptalia albicans, the white sunbonnet, is a plant species native to Mexico, Central America and the West Indies. It is known from Jamaica, Cuba, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, southern Florida (only in Miami-Dade County),^[5] the Bahamas, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz, Yucatán, Campeche and Chiapas.^[6][7][8]

Chaptalia albicans
Conservation status
Secure  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Genus:	Chaptalia
Species:	C. albicans
Binomial name
Chaptalia albicans (Sw.) B.D. Jacks.[2]
Synonyms[3][4]
Chaptalia albicans (Sw.) Vent. ex Steud. (Invalid because listed as synonym) Chaptalia crispula Greene Chaptalia fallax Greene Chaptalia integrifolia var. leiocarpa (DC.) Baker Chaptalia leiocarpa (DC.) Urb. Chaptalia nutans var. leiocarpa (DC.) Hitchc. Chaptalia nutans var. leiocarpa (DC.) Griseb. Chaptalia obovata C. Wright Gerbera albicans Sch.Bip. Gerbera leiocarpa (DC.) Sch.Bip. Leontodon tomentosum L.f. Leria albicans (Sw.) DC. (Illegitimate) Leria albicans (Sw.) A. DC. Leria leiocarpa DC. Leria nutans var. leiocarpa Griseb. Thyrsanthema tomentosum (L.f.) Kuntze Tussilago albicans Sw.

Chaptalia albicans is a herb forming a rosette of leaves. Leaves are elliptical, with margins that are wavy or slightly toothed but not lobed. Flowering stalks up to 15 cm tall at flowering time, 40 cm when the fruits are mature. Heads erect, with ray flowers up to 0.3 mm across. Achenes are up to 12 mm long, with a thread-like beak 50-67% as long as the body of the achene, usually hairless.^[4][9]