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):
Symphyotrichum racemosum var. subdumosum   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key


INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum racemosum   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Symphyotrichum racemosum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)

Symphyotrichum racemosum var. subdumosum

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

Symphyotrichum racemosum

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)

Aster racemosus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Aster vimineus var. subdumosus

 

COMMON NAME:
Small White Oldfield Aster


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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Symphyotrichum racemosum var. subdumosum   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum racemosum   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Symphyotrichum racemosum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular flora of Illinois (Mohlenbrock, 2014)
Symphyotrichum racemosum var. subdumosum

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Symphyotrichum racemosum

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Aster racemosus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Aster vimineus var. subdumosus

 

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4650

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal leaves absent or withered at flowering, but new rosettes often present)

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: White to light violet
Disc: Whitish-yellow becoming reddish
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile

Flower heads in loose leafy panicles

FRUIT:
Achene

 

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