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3557

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas

Documented growing wild in - NC SC

Rare

Look for it in pine barrens, dry road banks, per Weakley's Flora

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...Dry

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Blue/ Violet
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary
Flower heads in corymbs

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
 Eurybia spectabilis   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Eurybia spectabilis   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

 

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