Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Eurybia macrophylla
FAMILY
Asteraceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Test-drive A Teaching Key to Asters.
Read more about Large-leaf Aster at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eurybia macrophylla
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-005:
Aster macrophyllus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Large-leaf Aster, Bigleaf Aster
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_asma2_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm200522_5062
May Jackson County NC
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JK Marlow jkm200522_5063
May Jackson County NC
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JK Marlow jkm200522_5065
May Jackson County NC
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JK Marlow jkm0508b_04
August Transylvania County NC
Pisgah National Forest: Pisgah Ranger District
Basal leaves thick, long-stalked, with toothed cordate blade, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
COMPARE
leaves of Big-leaved Aster and Schreber's Aster
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JK Marlow jkm180828_4304
August Jackson County NC
Big Ridge Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm090913_040
September Jackson County NC
The plants form extensive clonal colonies, per Weakley's Flora.
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Tim Spira tpsemacrophylla
Month Unknown
Rays 12-20, white to lavender, 1.5-2cm long; disc flowers yellow to red, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Eurybia macrophylla
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eurybia macrophylla
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-005:
Aster macrophyllus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
159
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common in NC Mountains, uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Look for it in moist to dryish forests, in NC mostly at moderate to high elevations, particularly in red oak forests on ridgetops, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate
Upper stem leaves sessile, lower stem leaves petiolate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Pale blue/ Whitish
Disc: Yellow becoming purplish
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary
Flower heads in corymbs
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p454
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p438
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p276
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p325
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p372
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p209