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Test-drive A Teaching Key to Asters.
See herbarium specimens at the Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Ionactis linariifolia
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ionactis linariifolius
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 179-47-031:
Aster linariifolius
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Stiff-leaf Aster, Flaxleaf Aster, Spruce Aster
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_ioli2_001_lvd
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_i_linariifolia
June
An intensely yellow disc and 7-15 lilac-blue rays, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_ionactis_linariifolia
June
Occurs in dry open woods, per All About South Carolina Wildflowers.
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JK Marlow jkm061029_185
October Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
Leaves stiff, linear, entire, with a single prominent vein, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm071021_033b
October Oconee County SC
Thick needle-like leaves have only one prominent vein, per All About South Carolina Wildflowers.
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JK Marlow jkm161001_138
September Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
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JK Marlow jkm161001_139
September Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
Involucres turbinate; bracts whitish with green midrib, appressed, glabrous, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of North American asters
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JK Marlow jkm161001_140
September Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
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JK Marlow jkm161001_141
September Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_i_linariifolia_3
October
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Will Stuart wil_4059981702_7e452339b4
October Chesterfield County SC
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge
Most of the inflorescences appear reflexed. — Will Stuart