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):
Symphyotrichum urophyllum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum urophyllum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 179-47-008:
Aster sagittifolius
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Review of the taxonomy of Aster... emphasizing New World species (Nesom, 1994)
Symphyotrichum sagittifolium
(?) Aster cordifolius var. sagittifolius
COMMON NAME:
White Arrowleaf Aster, Arrowleaf Blue Wood Aster
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Sam Pratt sbp_3447
September Spartanburg County SC
Basal leaves shallowly cordate to truncate, per Weakley's Flora.
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Sam Pratt sbp_3452
September Spartanburg County SC
Lvs thin, margins usually shallowly, to deeply serrate, rarely entire (distal), per Flora of North America.
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Sam Pratt sbp_3454
September Spartanburg County SC
Basal leaves long-petiolate, petioles not or narrowly winged, sheathing, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm121027_753
October Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Phyllaries with linear-lanceolate-shaped green blaze (> 4x as long as wide), per Weakley's Flora.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of North American asters
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JK Marlow jkm161019_965
October Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm161019_966
October Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm161020_973
October Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm161020_978
October Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm161020_979
October Spartanburg County SC
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Sam Pratt sbp_2098
October Spartanburg County SC
Resembles A. cordifolius, but its inflorescence almost without leafiness, per Flora of the southeastern United States (JK Small, 1913).
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Sam Pratt sbp_2098b
October Spartanburg County SC
Distal lvs ± shortly winged-petiolate or sessile, bases attenuate to cuneate, per Flora of North America.
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Sam Pratt sbp_2100
October Spartanburg County SC