Test-drive A Teaching Key to Asters.
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):
Sericocarpus linifolius
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sericocarpus linifolius
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 179-47-002:
Aster solidagineus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Narrowleaf White-topped Aster, Slender White-topped Aster
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_seli5_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm120506_681
May Oconee County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120525_353
May Oconee County SC
Leaves sessile, linear to narrowly elliptic, not differing very much in size, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm120525_449
May Oconee County SC
Involucral bracts whitish with green tips, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of North American asters
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JK Marlow jkm120525_455
May Oconee County SC
Ray flowers white to pink, 3-6, narrow, 0.2-0.4" long; disk flowers cream, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm120525_457
May Oconee County SC
Leaves entire, to 0.5" wide, more than 5x long as wide, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmslinifolius_nt2
May
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JK Marlow jkm0506i_03
June Oconee County SC
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JK Marlow jkm0506i_08
June Oconee County SC
Flowers in densely-flowered flat-topped inflorescences, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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JK Marlow jkm140614_933
June Oconee County SC
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JK Marlow jkm140614_933b
June Oconee County SC
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JK Marlow jkm140614_937940
June Oconee County SC
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JK Marlow jkm140614_942
June Oconee County SC
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_linifoliusnarwhitop
June
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JK Marlow jkm0507l_26
July Oconee County SC
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JK Marlow jkm0507l_28
July Oconee County SC
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JK Marlow s050716_c
July Oconee County SC