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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Symphyotrichum sericeum   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum sericeum   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Symphyotrichum sericeum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Symphyotrichum sericeum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Symphyotrichum sericeum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Aster sericeus

SYNONYMOUS WITH -

Virgulus sericeus

 

COMMON NAME:
Western Silvery Aster


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image of Symphyotrichum sericeum, Western Silvery Aster

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_asse2_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Symphyotrichum sericeum   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum sericeum   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Symphyotrichum sericeum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Symphyotrichum sericeum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Symphyotrichum sericeum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster sericeus

SYNONYMOUS WITH -
Virgulus sericeus

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2884

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Glades, upland prairies, thin soils over calcareous outcrops, per Weakley's Flora

Native: west of the Carolinas & Georgia

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal leaves absent or withered at flowering)

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Blue/ Violet
Disc: Whitish becoming purple
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile

Flower heads in panicles

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Achene

 

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