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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 (11/30/12):
Symphyotrichum patens var. patens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum patens var. patens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
LESS THAN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 179-47-010:
Aster patens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
GREATER THAN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aster patens var. patens
COMMON NAME:
Late Purple Aster, Common Clasping Aster, Late Blue Aster, Skydrop Aster
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_aspa5_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm130922_505
September Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
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JK Marlow jkm130922_507
September Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
Leaves thick, entire, with rounded basal lobes that almost encircle the stem, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm061029_003
October Oconee County SC
Roadside
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JK Marlow jkm131009_879b
October Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
Phyllaries in 4-7(8) series, appressed or often slightly recurved-spreading, per Flora of North America.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of North American asters
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JK Marlow jkm131029_098
October Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
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JK Marlow jkm131029_101
October Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
Achenes covered w short silky hairs; pappus a tuft of hair-like bristles, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_patens_s
October
The 1" heads have ~ 20 blue or violet rays & yellow or reddish disk flowers, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.