OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Eurybia spectabilis   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eurybia spectabilis   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

Eurybia spectabilis

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-012:

Aster spectabilis   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Aster smallii

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Aster spectabilis

 

COMMON NAME:
Low Showy Aster, Eastern Showy Aster


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image of Eurybia spectabilis, Low Showy Aster, Eastern Showy Aster

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_assp11_001_lvd

        

image of Eurybia spectabilis, Low Showy Aster, Eastern Showy Aster

Penny Longhurst    pen_091523_1025464

September    Henderson County    NC

The Park at Flat Rock

Leaves firm (reticulately veined), faces usually scabrous (esp. abaxially), sometimes glabrous, per Flora of North America.

image of Eurybia spectabilis, Low Showy Aster, Eastern Showy Aster

Penny Longhurst    pen_091523_1025466

September    Henderson County    NC

The Park at Flat Rock

Ray florets 15-35; rays 10-25mm long, per Weakley's Flora (2023).

image of Eurybia spectabilis, Low Showy Aster, Eastern Showy Aster

Penny Longhurst    pen_091523_1025471

September    Henderson County    NC

The Park at Flat Rock

Phyllaries glandular-pubescent on the back and also glandular-ciliate; involucre 8-16mm high, per Weakley's Flora (2023).


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

image of Eurybia spectabilis, Low Showy Aster, Eastern Showy Aster

Penny Longhurst    pen_091523_1025473

September    Henderson County    NC

The Park at Flat Rock

image of Eurybia spectabilis, Low Showy Aster, Eastern Showy Aster

Penny Longhurst    pen_091523_1025475

September    Henderson County    NC

The Park at Flat Rock

image of Eurybia spectabilis, Low Showy Aster, Eastern Showy Aster

Penny Longhurst    pen_091523_1025476

September    Henderson County    NC

The Park at Flat Rock

image of Eurybia spectabilis, Low Showy Aster, Eastern Showy Aster

Penny Longhurst    pen_091523_1025477

September    Henderson County    NC

The Park at Flat Rock

image of Eurybia spectabilis, Low Showy Aster, Eastern Showy Aster

Penny Longhurst    pen_091523_1025477b

September    Henderson County    NC

The Park at Flat Rock

Bracts green, acute, squarrose, pubescent, glandular and ciliate, the outer foliaceous, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Eurybia spectabilis, Low Showy Aster, Eastern Showy Aster

Penny Longhurst    pen_091523_1025481

September    Henderson County    NC

The Park at Flat Rock

image of Eurybia spectabilis, Low Showy Aster, Eastern Showy Aster

Penny Longhurst    pen_091523_1025485

September    Henderson County    NC

The Park at Flat Rock

[Stem] leaves elliptic, acute, base cuneate to attentuate, sessile, clasping, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Eurybia spectabilis, Low Showy Aster, Eastern Showy Aster

Penny Longhurst    pen_20230915_103032

September    Henderson County    NC

The Park at Flat Rock

1-5 erect stems at the ends of long rhizomes, forming colonies, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Eurybia spectabilis, Low Showy Aster, Eastern Showy Aster

Penny Longhurst    pen_20230915_103054

September    Henderson County    NC

The Park at Flat Rock

Heads usually in open, corymbiform arrays, seldom borne singly, branches ascending, stout, per Flora of North America.

image of Eurybia spectabilis, Low Showy Aster, Eastern Showy Aster

Penny Longhurst    pen_20230915_103110

September    Henderson County    NC

The Park at Flat Rock

Leaves somewhat basally disposed, the lowermost sometimes withering before flowering, per Weakley's Flora (2023).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Eurybia spectabilis   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eurybia spectabilis   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-012:
Aster spectabilis   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster smallii

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster spectabilis

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3557

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Pine barrens, dry road banks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Long rhizomatous, forming clonal colonies

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Blue/ Violet
Disc: Yellow
Flower heads with 15-35 ray flowers
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile

Flower heads in corymbs

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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