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Forb
Perennial

Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC -

Rare

Look for it on dry, rocky slopes, per Weakley's Flora

To see a detailed map, click here

 

...Moist ...Dry

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal rosette usually withered by flowering)

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Blue/ Violet/ Pale blue-violet (rarely pinkish or white)
Disc: Whitish-yellow becoming reddish-purple
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Inferior ovary
Flower heads in panicles

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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

• Gardening with Native Plants of the South p140
• Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p109
• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p454
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p276
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p325

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Symphyotrichum shortii   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum shortii   FAMILY Asteraceae

GREATER THAN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Aster shortii

GREATER THAN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Aster camptosorus