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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 (5/21/15):
Doellingeria umbellata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Doellingeria umbellata var. umbellata
FAMILY
Asteraceae
LESS THAN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 179-47-041a:
Aster umbellatus var. umbellatus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Doellingeria umbellata
COMMON NAME:
Tall Flat-topped White Aster, Tall Whitetop Aster
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JK Marlow jkm150814_764
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Disk flowers 16-40 per head; ray flowers 5-14 per head, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm150814_766
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Leaves mostly 4-6x as long as wide, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm150814_768
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Leaves narrowly elliptic and entire, on short petioles, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm150814_796
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Plants with stems scattered from creeping rhizomes (forming clonal patches), per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm150814_798
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
The inflorescence is not an umbel but a flattish corymbiform cluster, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmdumbellata_wsm1
Month Unknown Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain