Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Eurybia schreberi
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eurybia schreberi
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Eurybia schreberi
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Eurybia schreberi
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Eurybia schreberi
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aster schreberi
INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Aster glomeratus
INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Aster schreberi
COMMON NAME:
Schreber's Aster
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_assc2_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Eurybia schreberi
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eurybia schreberi
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Eurybia schreberi
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Eurybia schreberi
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Eurybia schreberi
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aster schreberi
INCLUDING
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Aster glomeratus
INCLUDING
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Aster schreberi
3407
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Mesic forests and seepage slopes, per Weakley's Flora
Native to e. Tennessee & north of the Carolinas
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LEAVES:
Simple
Upper stem leaves sessile, lower stem leaves petiolate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: White
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads in corymbs
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
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