Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Symphyotrichum phlogifolium
FAMILY
Asteraceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Test-drive A Teaching Key to Asters.
Thinleaf Late Purple Aster is much like Late Purple Aster (S. patens) in gestalt, but several characters differ markedly. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum phlogifolium
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Symphyotrichum phlogifolium
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-010?:
Aster patens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aster patens var. phlogifolius
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster phlogifolius
SYNONYMOUS WITH
-
Virgulus patens var. phlogifolius
COMMON NAME:
Appalachian Clasping Aster, Thinleaf Late Purple Aster
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_asph6_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Symphyotrichum phlogifolium
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum phlogifolium
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Symphyotrichum phlogifolium
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-010?:
Aster patens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aster patens var. phlogifolius
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster phlogifolius
SYNONYMOUS WITH
-
Virgulus patens var. phlogifolius
3406
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Uncommon (rare in Coastal Plain) (rare in GA)
Look for it in mesic, nutrient-rich mixed hardwood forests, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal leaves absent or withered at flowering)
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Blue/ Violet
Disc: White with purplish lobes
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary
Flower heads in dense panicles
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
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