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 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