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Habitat: Nutrient-rich bottomlands and moist slopes in the lower Piedmont
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Phyllaries acute, obtuse, or rounded at the apex, squarrose in life, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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Rays 12-20, bluish-lavender to white, 1.5-2cm long; disc flowers yellow, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Lower leaves long-petioled w truncate to cordate bases; upper reduced, sessile, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
Habitat: Moist to dryish forests, in NC mostly at moderate to high elevations, particularly in red oak forests on ridgetops
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Rhizomes long, the plants forming extensive clonal colonies, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
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Basal leaves thick, long-stalked, with toothed cordate blade, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Peduncles firm, densely stipitate-glandular. Phyllaries 5-6 series, appressed, strongly unequal, per Flora of North America.
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Inflorescence a flat-topped corymb, rarely with fewer than 17 heads. Rays 12-20, white to lavender, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Branches of the inflorescence glandular-pubescent, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
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Bracts lt green, oblong to oblanceolate, dark green ascending apex, stipitate-glandular, ciliate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Habitat: Mesic forests and seepage slopes)
Habitat: Moist to fairly dry forests and woodlands
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Leaves well-stalked, coarsely sharp-toothed, and cordate-ovate, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Phyllaries in 4-5 series, strongly unequal, green zones distal 1/2-1/3, margins narrowly scarious, per Flora of North America.
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Often confused w E. chlorolepis, E. schreberi, or Symphyotrichum cordifolium, per Flora of North America.
Habitat: Northern hardwood forests, spruce-fir forests
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Leaves ovate to lance-ovate or the upper elliptic to lanceolate, acuminate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Usually found above 1200m (vs. A. divaricatus usually found below 1200m), per The Taxonomic Status and Probable Origin of Aster chlorolepis, a Southern Appalachian Endemic (Lamboy, 1992).
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Rays white, usually 10 or more, 1.5-2cm long, disc flowers yellow or red, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
Habitat: Rich forests, shaded roadbanks
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Phyllaries with lanceolate diamond-shaped blaze (2-3x long as wide), per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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Flowers in a paniculate inflorescence, heads 1/2-3/4" wide, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Ray florets (8)10-16(20). Disc florets cream or light yellow becoming purple, per Flora of North America.
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Bract tips dark green. — Ron Lance
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Basal & lower cauline leaves toothed, with slender petioles & cordate bases, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Distalmost leaves usually sessile or subsessile, margins serrate or entire, per Flora of North America.
Habitat: Mesic to dry-mesic forests
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Flower heads in ~ densely paniculiform arrays, per Flora of North America.
Habitat: Moist to dry forests, fields, and roadbanks
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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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Basal leaves shallowly cordate to truncate, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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Resembles A. cordifolius, but its inflorescence almost without leafiness, per Flora of the southeastern United States (JK Small, 1913).
Habitat: Dry, rocky slopes; rock outcrops in wooded situations, calcareous hammocks (in FL)
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Habitat: Dry forests, woodlands, glades, roadbanks
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Lowest stem leaves cordate, petiolate and auriculate clasping.
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Cauline leaf blades sessile and cordate-clasping, and/or... [see next photo]
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[continued] ... petiolate, petiole strongly dilated to a cordate-clasping base, per Weakley's Flora.
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Leaves untoothed or weakly toothed, often wavy margined. — Ron Lance
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Loose panicles of blue to violet flowers, rays 12-20. — Ron Lance
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Phyllaries appressed, green blaze lanceolate to elongate diamond-shaped, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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Bracts pale with green diamond-shaped band near apex or along entire midrib, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).