Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Eurybia mirabilis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eurybia mirabilis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Eurybia mirabilis
INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-004:
Aster commixtus FAMILY Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster mirabilis
COMMON NAME:
Piedmont Aster, Bouquet Aster
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Keith Bradley kab_e_mirabilis_3812
September Lancaster County SC
Forty Acre Rock Heritage Preserve
Phyllaries acute, obtuse, or rounded at the apex, squarrose in life, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
COMPARE
involucral bracts of North American asters
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Keith Bradley kab_e_mirabilis_3829
September Lancaster County SC
Forty Acre Rock Heritage Preserve
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Wesley Burnett gwb2159_3669
October Union County SC
Rose Hill State Park
Rays 12-20, bluish-lavender to white, 1.5-2cm long; disc flowers yellow, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Wesley Burnett gwb2159_3671
October Union County SC
Rose Hill State Park
Lower leaves long-petioled w truncate to cordate bases; upper reduced, sessile, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Eurybia mirabilis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eurybia mirabilis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Eurybia mirabilis
INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED)
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-004:
Aster commixtus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster mirabilis
2159
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Nutrient-rich bottomlands and moist slopes in the lower Piedmont, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas
Rare
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal leaves often absent or withered at flowering)
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Bluish-lavender/ White
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads in flat corymbs
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brownish/Purple
Achene
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