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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 shortii   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum shortii   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

Symphyotrichum shortii

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Symphyotrichum shortii

INCLUDING New combinations in the Florida flora (Ward, 2001)

Aster shortii var. camptosorus

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

Symphyotrichum shortii

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Aster shortii

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Aster camptosorus

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Aster shortii

 

COMMON NAME:
Short's Aster, Midwestern Blue Heart-leaved Aster


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image of Symphyotrichum shortii, Short's Aster, Midwestern Blue Heart-leaved Aster

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_assh_001_lvd

        

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum shortii   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Symphyotrichum shortii

INCLUDING New combinations in the Florida flora (Ward, 2001)
Aster shortii var. camptosorus

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aster shortii

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster camptosorus

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster shortii

 

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Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Dry, rocky slopes; rock outcrops in wooded situations, calcareous hammocks (in FL), per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina & Georgia

Rare in GA (historically in NC, but not recently seen)

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

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

Flower heads in leafy panicles

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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