Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Test-drive A Teaching Key to Asters.
Only a few of the "small white asters" that inhabit floodplains and bottomlands, and Calico Aster is one of them. 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 lateriflorum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum lateriflorum var. lateriflorum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS National Database
Symphyotrichum lateriflorum var. horizontale
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-035:
Aster lateriflorus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Calico Aster, Starved Aster
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September Greenville County SC
Less than 15 white rays (occasionally w a lavender tinge). Disk purplish-red, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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September Greenville County SC
Involucres turbinate; bracts whitish with green midrib, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of North American asters
JK Marlow jkm141025_336
October Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Leaves elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, flexible, serrate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
JK Marlow jkm141025_337
October Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
New vernal rosettes often developing at flowering, per Flora of North America.