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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Test-drive A Teaching Key to Asters.
See herbarium specimens at the Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants.
Bushy Aster is one of several species with wide-spreading, branchy growth and small heads with short pale blue to white rays -- indeed looking like a slender "bush". As a group they present a challenge to the field botanist. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Symphyotrichum dumosum +
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum dumosum +
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-037:
Aster dumosus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Bushy Aster, Long-stalked Aster, Rice-button Aster
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JK Marlow jkm200517_4956
May Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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JK Marlow jkm190722_0102
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm190726_0201
July Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
Leaves firm, margins entire to crenulate-serrate, recurved, scabrous, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm160913_027
September Greenville County SC
Inflorescence a loose panicle with numerous bracteal leaves, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm160923_736
September Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm180918_4799
September Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200926_7361
September Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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JK Marlow jkm200926_7373
September Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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JK Marlow jkm200926_7374
September Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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JK Marlow jkm200926_7381
September Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
Rays 14-20, white or blue to lavender; disc flowers yellow or red, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm200926_7382
September Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
Involucres cylindro-campanulate. Phyllaries appressed or slightly spreading, per Flora of North America.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of North American asters
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JK Marlow jkm121004_214
October Greenville County SC
Distal cauline lvs 2-45mm x 0.5-4mm, reduced distally (abruptly on branches), per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm121004_221
October Greenville County SC
Leaves linear to narrowly elliptic, smooth to scabrous above, glabrous beneath, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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October Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm201015_7705
October Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
Pappus whitish, 3-4mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.