Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Symphyotrichum ontarionis var. ontarionis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum ontarionis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Symphyotrichum ontarionis var. ontarionis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Symphyotrichum ontarionis var. ontarionis
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Symphyotrichum ontarione var. ontarione
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-035?:
Aster lateriflorus FAMILY Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aster ontarionis
COMMON NAME:
Bottomland Aster
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_asmi14_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Symphyotrichum ontarionis var. ontarionis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
(?)
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum ontarionis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Symphyotrichum ontarionis var. ontarionis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Symphyotrichum ontarionis var. ontarionis
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Symphyotrichum ontarione var. ontarione
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-035?:
Aster lateriflorus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aster ontarionis
4900
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Bottomlands, swamps, bogs, per Weakley's Flora
Native to Georgia & possibly South Carolina
Rare
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal leaves usually absent or withered at flowering, but new rosettes often present)
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Long rhizomatous, forming clonal colonies
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: White
rarely lavender
Disc: Cream to light yellow becoming purple to brown
Flower heads with (10)15-26 ray flowers
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads in loose leafy panicles
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Achene
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