Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-017:
Aster novae-angliae FAMILY Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster novae-angliae
SYNONYMOUS WITH -
Virgulus novae-angliae
COMMON NAME:
New England Aster, Michaelmas-daisy
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_asno_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm120815_805
August Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Well over 50 ray flowers in each 1-2" head; their color is intense, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm120815_808
August Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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JK Marlow jkm120815_812
August Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Leaves entire, lanceolate, pointed lobes at base conspicuously clasping stem, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm0109a_02
September Buncombe County NC
NC Arboretum
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JK Marlow jkm090924_035
September Hancock County ME
Acadia National Park: Wild Gardens of Acadia
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JK Marlow jkm090924_037
September Hancock County ME
Acadia National Park: Wild Gardens of Acadia
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_novae_angliae_2
September
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_novae_angliae
October
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_novae_angliae_3
October
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-017:
Aster novae-angliae
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster novae-angliae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
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Virgulus novae-angliae
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Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Wet meadows, bogs, prairies, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon in NC Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal leaves usually absent or withered at flowering)
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Purplish-blue
Disc: Yellow becoming reddish-purple
Flower heads with over 50 ray flowers
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads in leafy, often crowded, corymb-like or panicle-like arrays
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p167
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p109
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p460
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p384
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p113
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p263
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p276
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p325
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p209
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