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Test-drive A Teaching Key to Asters.
See herbarium specimens at the Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants.
You may also want to look at The Connecticut Botanical Society's guide to New England asters
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_ionactis_linariifolia
June
Occurs in dry open woods, per All About South Carolina Wildflowers.
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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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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