Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Symphyotrichum urophyllum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Read more about Symphyotrichum at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum urophyllum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Symphyotrichum urophyllum
(?) Review of the taxonomy of Aster... emphasizing New World species (Nesom, 1994)
Symphyotrichum sagittifolium
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-008:
Aster sagittifolius FAMILY Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Aster sagittifolius var. sagittifolius
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster sagittifolius
(?) -
Aster cordifolius var. sagittifolius
COMMON NAME:
White Arrowleaf Aster, Arrowleaf Blue Wood Aster
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JK Marlow jkm180924_4921
September McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
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JK Marlow jkm180924_4924
September McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
Lower stems glabrous; upper stems sparsely hirtellous or pilose, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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JK Marlow jkm180924_4928
September McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
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JK Marlow jkm180924_4931
September McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
Involucral bracts with green band along midrib for nearly their entire length, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Sam Pratt sbp_3447
September Spartanburg County SC
Basal leaves shallowly cordate to truncate, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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Sam Pratt sbp_3452
September Spartanburg County SC
Lvs thin, margins usually shallowly to deeply serrate, rarely entire (distal), per Flora of North America.
COMPARE
asters with heart-shaped leaves
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Sam Pratt sbp_3454
September Spartanburg County SC
Basal leaves long-petiolate, petioles not or narrowly winged, sheathing, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm121027_753
October Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Phyllaries with linear-lanceolate-shaped green blaze (> 4x as long as wide), per Weakley's Flora (2015).
COMPARE
involucral bracts of North American asters
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Sam Pratt sbp_2098
October Spartanburg County SC
Resembles A. cordifolius, but its inflorescence almost without leafiness, per Flora of the southeastern United States (JK Small, 1913).
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Sam Pratt sbp_2098b
October Spartanburg County SC
Distal lvs ± shortly winged-petiolate or sessile, bases attenuate to cuneate, per Flora of North America.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Symphyotrichum urophyllum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum urophyllum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Symphyotrichum urophyllum
(?)
Review of the taxonomy of Aster... emphasizing New World species (Nesom, 1994)
Symphyotrichum sagittifolium
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-008:
Aster sagittifolius
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Aster sagittifolius var. sagittifolius
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster sagittifolius
(?)
-
Aster cordifolius var. sagittifolius
167
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Moist to dry forests, fields, and roadbanks, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal leaves usually absent or withered at flowering)
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: White to pale pink or lilac or light blue
Disc: Whitish to cream becoming reddish-purple
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads in dense panicles
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p454
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p120
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p208
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