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Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common

Look for it in mesic to dry upland forests and woodlands, swamps, wet pine flatwoods, clearings, old fields, roadsides, other disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

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...Moist ...Dry

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal leaves usually absent or withered at flowering, but new rosettes often present)

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: White
Disc: Whitish-yellow becoming reddish-purple
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads with less than 15 ray flowers
Inferior ovary

Flower heads in loose leafy panicles

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Achene

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p108
• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p456
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p114
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p327
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p213
• Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p235

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Symphyotrichum lateriflorum   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum lateriflorum var. lateriflorum   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Symphyotrichum lateriflorum

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