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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Eurybia chlorolepis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eurybia chlorolepis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Eurybia chlorolepis
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-006b:
Aster divaricatus var. chlorolepis FAMILY Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster chlorolepis
COMMON NAME:
Blue Ridge White Heart-leaved Aster, Mountain Wood-aster
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JK Marlow jkm0508c_13
August Transylvania County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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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JK Marlow jkm150814_731
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
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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JK Marlow jkm180821_3997
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Longest peduncle in capitulescence > 1.5cm (A. divaricatus < 1.5cm), per The Taxonomic Status and Probable Origin of Aster chlorolepis, a Southern Appalachian Endemic (Lamboy, 1992).
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JK Marlow jkm180821_4001
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
COMPARE
asters with heart-shaped leaves
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmechlorolep_whiteside1
Month Unknown Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
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).
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmechlorolepis_craggy
Month Unknown Buncombe County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Eurybia chlorolepis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eurybia chlorolepis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Eurybia chlorolepis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-006b:
Aster divaricatus var. chlorolepis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster chlorolepis
149
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: northern hardwood forests, spruce-fir forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in NC Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal leaves absent or withered at flowering)
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: White
Disc: Yellow becoming purplish
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads in corymbs
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p107?
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962) p130?
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p454?
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p185
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p080
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011) p371
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p209?
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