Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Eurybia radula
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eurybia radula
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Eurybia radula
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Eurybia radula
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Eurybia radula
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aster radula
COMMON NAME:
Rough-leaved Aster, Low Rough Aster
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_asra8_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Eurybia radula
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eurybia radula
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Eurybia radula
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Eurybia radula
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Eurybia radula
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aster radula
3404
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Circumneutral to calcareous wet meadows, possibly stream banks, per Weakley's Flora
Native north of the Carolinas
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Pale blue-violet
Disc: Yellow
Flower heads with 13-30 ray flowers
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads in flat corymbs
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
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