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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):
Symphyotrichum patens var. patens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum patens var. patens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
LESS THAN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 179-47-010:
Aster patens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
GREATER THAN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aster patens var. patens
COMMON NAME:
Late Purple Aster, Common Clasping Aster, Late Blue Aster, Skydrop Aster
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_aspa5_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm130922_505
September Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
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JK Marlow jkm130922_507
September Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
Leaves thick, entire, with rounded basal lobes that almost encircle the stem, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm061029_003
October Oconee County SC
Roadside
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JK Marlow jkm131009_879b
October Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
Phyllaries in 4-7(8) series, appressed or often slightly recurved-spreading, per Flora of North America.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of North American asters
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JK Marlow jkm131029_098
October Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
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JK Marlow jkm131029_101
October Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
Achenes covered w short silky hairs; pappus a tuft of hair-like bristles, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_patens_s
October
The 1" heads have ~ 20 blue or violet rays & yellow or reddish disk flowers, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.