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Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia?

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Rare

Look for it in moist soils, per Weakley's Flora

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...Moist

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: White to light blue-violet
Disc: Yellow becoming reddish-purple
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary
Flower heads in many-headed panicles

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Tan
Achene

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

White Panicle Aster is one of the "small white asters" and must be identified with care. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Symphyotrichum lanceolatum var. lanceolatum FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum lanceolatum ssp. lanceolatum var. lanceolatum FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Aster lanceolatus var. lanceolatus

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-033:
Aster simplex FAMILY Asteraceae

COMMON NAME:
White Panicle Aster, Tall White Aster, Panicled Aster

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image of Symphyotrichum lanceolatum var. lanceolatum, White Panicle Aster, Tall White Aster, Panicled Aster

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_aspa35_001_lvd