Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Symphyotrichum adnatum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum adnatum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Symphyotrichum adnatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Symphyotrichum adnatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Symphyotrichum adnatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster adnatus
COMMON NAME:
Scale-leaf Aster
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Alan S. Weakley asw_166439749660688
April FL
Apalachicola National Forest
Blades of mid-stem leaves ascending-appressed, twisted at the base, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Symphyotrichum adnatum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum adnatum
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Symphyotrichum adnatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Symphyotrichum adnatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Symphyotrichum adnatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster adnatus
4724
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, pine flatwoods, pine rocklands, per Weakley's Flora
Native to Georgia Coastal Plain
Uncommon
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal leaves absent or withered at flowering)
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping]
FLOWER:
Fall
Rays: Lavender
Disc: Yellow
Flower heads with 10-20 ray flowers
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
FRUIT:
Fall
Achene
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