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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Eurybia surculosa   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eurybia surculosa   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

Eurybia surculosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-013:

Aster surculosus   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

Aster surculosus

 

COMMON NAME:
Creeping Aster, Michaux's Wood-Aster


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image of Eurybia surculosa, Creeping Aster, Michaux's Wood-Aster

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_assu9_001_lvd

        

image of Eurybia surculosa, Creeping Aster, Michaux's Wood-Aster

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmesurculosa_pc1

August    Pickens County    SC

Poe Creek State Forest

image of Eurybia surculosa, Creeping Aster, Michaux's Wood-Aster

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_eurybia_surculosa

September        

image of Eurybia surculosa, Creeping Aster, Michaux's Wood-Aster

JK Marlow    jkm221004_0165

October    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

The involucral bracts are spreading but [unlike Symphyotrichum retroflexum] not recurved, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Eurybia surculosa, Creeping Aster, Michaux's Wood-Aster

JK Marlow    jkm221004_0169

October    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

image of Eurybia surculosa, Creeping Aster, Michaux's Wood-Aster

JK Marlow    jkm221004_0171

October    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

image of Eurybia surculosa, Creeping Aster, Michaux's Wood-Aster

JK Marlow    jkm221004_0176

October    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

Flowers in a corymbiform cluster, each with 15-30 violet rays, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Eurybia surculosa, Creeping Aster, Michaux's Wood-Aster

JK Marlow    jkm221004_0178

October    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

image of Eurybia surculosa, Creeping Aster, Michaux's Wood-Aster

JK Marlow    jkm221004_0181

October    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

Largest leaves > 15mm wide; lvs ~ basally disposed, lowermost sometimes withering before flowering, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Eurybia surculosa, Creeping Aster, Michaux's Wood-Aster

JK Marlow    jkm221007_0264

October    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

Phyllary apices mucronulate (outer) or apiculate (inner), per Flora of North America.

image of Eurybia surculosa, Creeping Aster, Michaux's Wood-Aster

JK Marlow    jkm221007_0266

October    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

image of Eurybia surculosa, Creeping Aster, Michaux's Wood-Aster

JK Marlow    jkm221007_0270

October    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

Leaves very obscurely veined beneath, entire or nearly so, glabrous on the undersurface, per Weakley's Flora (2022).

image of Eurybia surculosa, Creeping Aster, Michaux's Wood-Aster

JK Marlow    jkm221007_0274

October    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

Apices acute to obtuse, indurate, often mucronate, per Flora of North America.

image of Eurybia surculosa, Creeping Aster, Michaux's Wood-Aster

JK Marlow    jkm221007_0280

October    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

image of Eurybia surculosa, Creeping Aster, Michaux's Wood-Aster

JK Marlow    jkm221007_0284

October    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

image of Eurybia surculosa, Creeping Aster, Michaux's Wood-Aster

JK Marlow    jkm221007_0287

October    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

image of Eurybia surculosa, Creeping Aster, Michaux's Wood-Aster

JK Marlow    jkm231001_5721

October    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

image of Eurybia surculosa, Creeping Aster, Michaux's Wood-Aster

JK Marlow    jkm231001_5723

October    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

image of Eurybia surculosa, Creeping Aster, Michaux's Wood-Aster

JK Marlow    jkm231001_5728

October    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

Only midnerves conspicuous, per Flora of North America.

image of Eurybia surculosa, Creeping Aster, Michaux's Wood-Aster

JK Marlow    jkm231001_5730

October    Transylvania County    NC

DuPont State Forest

image of Eurybia surculosa, Creeping Aster, Michaux's Wood-Aster

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmesurculosa_tr2

Month Unknown        

image of Eurybia surculosa, Creeping Aster, Michaux's Wood-Aster

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmesurculosa_tr4

Month Unknown        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Eurybia surculosa   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eurybia surculosa   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Eurybia surculosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-013:
Aster surculosus   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

 

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171

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: rock outcrops, glades, rocky woodlands, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in Mountains, rare in Piedmont

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Blue/ Violet
Disc: Yellow
Flower heads with 13-30 ray flowers
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile

Flower heads in narrow corymbs

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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