OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Eurybia avita   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eurybia avita   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Eurybia avita

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Eurybia avita

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Eurybia avita

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)

Aster avitus

 

COMMON NAME:
Alexander's Rock Aster


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image of Eurybia avita, Alexander's Rock Aster

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmeavita_boggs1

August-September?    Pickens County    SC

image of Eurybia avita, Alexander's Rock Aster

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmeavita_boggs10

August-September?    Pickens County    SC

image of Eurybia avita, Alexander's Rock Aster

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmeavita_boggs2

August-September?    Pickens County    SC

Inflorescence corymbiform, ray florets 8-15(-25), per Weakley's Flora (2022).

image of Eurybia avita, Alexander's Rock Aster

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmeavita_boggs3

August-September?    Pickens County    SC

image of Eurybia avita, Alexander's Rock Aster

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmeavita_boggs4

August-September?    Pickens County    SC

image of Eurybia avita, Alexander's Rock Aster

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmeavita_boggs5

August-September?    Pickens County    SC

image of Eurybia avita, Alexander's Rock Aster

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmeavita_boggs7

August-September?    Pickens County    SC

image of Eurybia avita, Alexander's Rock Aster

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmeavita_br2good

August-September?        

image of Eurybia avita, Alexander's Rock Aster

JK Marlow    jkm221010_0305

October    Pickens County    SC

Phyllaries in 4-5 series, unequal, apices appressed or reflexed; outer apical zones dark green, per Flora of North America.


click here to see other plants that look similar to this COMPARE involucral bracts of North American asters

image of Eurybia avita, Alexander's Rock Aster

JK Marlow    jkm221010_0309

October    Pickens County    SC

Ray florets 8-20, 5-10mm × 1-1.7mm. Corolla lobes of disc florets erect, triangular, per Flora of North America.

image of Eurybia avita, Alexander's Rock Aster

JK Marlow    jkm221010_0310

October    Pickens County    SC

image of Eurybia avita, Alexander's Rock Aster

JK Marlow    jkm221010_0313

October    Pickens County    SC

image of Eurybia avita, Alexander's Rock Aster

JK Marlow    jkm221010_0319

October    Pickens County    SC

Leaf blades (1-nerved) linear to lance-linear or oblong-linear (grasslike), per Flora of North America.

image of Eurybia avita, Alexander's Rock Aster

JK Marlow    jkm221010_0320

October    Pickens County    SC

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Eurybia avita   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eurybia avita   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Eurybia avita

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Eurybia avita

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Eurybia avita

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Southeastern States (Cronquist 1980, Isely 1990)
Aster avitus

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2469

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: In shallow soils on granitic flatrocks and granitic domes where moist from seasonal seepage, per Weakley's Flora

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal leaves often absent or withered at flowering)

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Bluish-white to deep violet
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile

Flower heads in flat corymbs

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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