Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Eurybia radula
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eurybia radula
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge (Wofford, 1989)
Aster radula
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aster radula
INCLUDING
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Aster radula var. 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 (10/20/20):
Eurybia radula
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eurybia radula
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge (Wofford, 1989)
Aster radula
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aster radula
INCLUDING
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Aster radula var. radula
3404
Forb
Perennial
Native north of the Carolinas
Documented growing wild in - - -
Rare
Look for it in circumneutral to calcareous wet meadows, possibly stream banks, per Weakley's Flora
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or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Pale blue-violet
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads with 13-30 ray flowers
Inferior ovary
Flower heads in flat corymbs
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
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