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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eurybia compacta   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

Eurybia compacta

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-015:

Aster gracilis   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

Aster gracilis

 

COMMON NAME:
Slender Aster


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image of Eurybia compacta, Slender Aster

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_asgr7_001_lvd

        

image of Eurybia compacta, Slender Aster

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_eurybia_compacta1

September    Moore County    NC

image of Eurybia compacta, Slender Aster

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_eurybia_compacta1b

September    Moore County    NC

Leaves thick, firm (only midnerves conspicuous), scabrous, per Flora of North America.

image of Eurybia compacta, Slender Aster

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_eurybia_compacta1c

September    Moore County    NC

Ray florets (5)8-14; corollas blue-violet to rose-purple or bluish, often pale, per Flora of North America.

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eurybia compacta   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-015:
Aster gracilis   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2448

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: pine savannas, woodlands, clearings, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in Carolina Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal leaves often absent or withered at flowering)
Margins entire or nearly so

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Blue/ Violet
Disc: Pale yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile

Flower heads in many-headed corymbs

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Light brown
Achene

 

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