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Test-drive A Teaching Key to Asters.
See herbarium specimens at the Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Symphyotrichum lateriflorum var. lateriflorum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum lateriflorum var. lateriflorum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
LESS THAN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 179-47-035:
Aster lateriflorus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Calico Aster, Starved Aster
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_asla6_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm100730_206
July Jackson County NC
Balsam Mountain Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm120930_179
September Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120930_179b
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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JK Marlow jkm120930_184
September Greenville County SC
Involucres turbinate; bracts whitish with green midrib, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of North American asters
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JK Marlow jkm140930_986
September Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_lateriflorum_lateri
September
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JK Marlow jkm141025_330
October Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm141025_334
October Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm141025_336
October Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Leaves elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, flexible, serrate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm141025_337
October Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
New vernal rosettes often developing at flowering, per Flora of North America.