Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Symphyotrichum patens var. patens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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.
Read about some of the characters that help distinguish this from S. georgianum and S. phlogifolium at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum patens var. patens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Flora of North America
Symphyotrichum patens var. patens
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VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-010:
Aster patens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aster patens var. patens
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Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Aster patens
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Virgulus patens var. patens
COMMON NAME:
Late Purple Aster, Common Clasping Aster, Late Blue Aster, Skydrop Aster
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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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 jkm200502_4474
May Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200502_4479
May Greenville County SC
Leaves thick, entire, with rounded basal lobes that almost encircle the stem, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm200502_4480
May Greenville County SC
Leaf margins ciliate-crenulate to entire, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm200525_5248
May Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200525_5286
May Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm210619_1402
June Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm130922_505
September Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
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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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JK Marlow jkm201002_7531
October Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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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.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Symphyotrichum patens var. patens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum patens var. patens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America
Symphyotrichum patens var. patens
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-010:
Aster patens
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDING
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aster patens var. patens
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Aster patens
INCLUDED WITHIN
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Virgulus patens var. patens
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Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Look for it in dry woodlands, longleaf pine sandhills, roadsides, woodland edges, clearings, roadbanks, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Variable
...Dry
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal leaves absent or withered at flowering)
Margins ciliate-crenulate to entire
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Blue/ Violet
(rarely white)
Disc: Yellow, cream or white becoming reddish-purple
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary
Flower heads in panicles
FRUIT:
Fall
Tan
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p016
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p109
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p460
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p436
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p114
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p277
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p326
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p210
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p148