Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Symphyotrichum simmondsii
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Unlike S. dumosum, the branches of S. simmondsii have relatively few bract-like leaves, and unlike S. pilosum, S. simmondsii is generally glabrous. Read more about how S. simmondsii compares to other "small white asters" at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum simmondsii
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Symphyotrichum simmondsii
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster simmondsii
COMMON NAME:
Simmonds’s Aster
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Symphyotrichum simmondsii
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum simmondsii
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Symphyotrichum simmondsii
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster simmondsii
4651
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Florida wet prairies, wet pine flatwoods, ditches, other moist to wet habitats, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal leaves absent or withered at flowering)
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Long rhizomatous, forming clonal colonies
FLOWER:
Winter/SpringFall
Rays: Light blue-violet to whitish
Disc: Yellow becoming reddish
Flower heads with 18-38 ray flowers
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads in raceme-like or panicle-like arrays, branches spreading or ascending
FRUIT:
Winter/SpringFall
Achene
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