OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ampelaster carolinianus   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)

Ampelaster carolinianus

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

Ampelaster carolinianus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2003)

Symphyotrichum carolinianum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-026:

Aster carolinianus   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

Aster carolinianus

 

COMMON NAME:
Climbing Aster


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image of Ampelaster carolinianus, Climbing Aster

JK Marlow    jkm201023_7905

October    Greenville County    SC

Lichtenfelt Nursery

image of Ampelaster carolinianus, Climbing Aster

JK Marlow    jkm201023_7906

October    Greenville County    SC

Lichtenfelt Nursery

Leaves lance-shaped, clasping at base, 1.5-4" long, typically < 1.25" wide, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

image of Ampelaster carolinianus, Climbing Aster

JK Marlow    jkm201023_7907

October    Greenville County    SC

Lichtenfelt Nursery

Involucral bracts whitish, green with dark green foliaceous apices, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).


click here to see other plants that look similar to this COMPARE involucral bracts of North American asters

image of Ampelaster carolinianus, Climbing Aster

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_a_carolinianus_1

November    Catawba County    NC

In cultivation

Woody stems and a sprawling habit, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

image of Ampelaster carolinianus, Climbing Aster

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_a_carolinianus_1b

November    Catawba County    NC

In cultivation

image of Ampelaster carolinianus, Climbing Aster

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_a_carolinianus_3

November    Catawba County    NC

In cultivation

50-70 rays per head. Disc flowers yellow, turning red presumably after pollination, per Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005).

image of Ampelaster carolinianus, Climbing Aster

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_a_carolinianus_4

November    Catawba County    NC

In cultivation

image of Ampelaster carolinianus, Climbing Aster

Eric Ungberg    ung_20221211_190055742

December        NC

in cultivation

Leaves with clasping bases [note auricles], elliptical to lance-shaped, rough on both surfaces, per Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019).

image of Ampelaster carolinianus, Climbing Aster

Eric Ungberg    ung_20221211_190109738

December        NC

in cultivation

image of Ampelaster carolinianus, Climbing Aster

Eric Ungberg    ung_20221211_190114902

December        NC

in cultivation

Narrow green and white bracts surround the cylindrical base of each head, per Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019).

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ampelaster carolinianus   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Ampelaster carolinianus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Ampelaster carolinianus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2003)
Symphyotrichum carolinianum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-026:
Aster carolinianus   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

 

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2641

Shrub; Woody vine
Perennial

Habitat: swamps, thickets, marshes, streambanks, freshwater tidal marshes and swamps, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Rare (historically in NC, but not recently seen)

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LEAVES:
Deciduous to evergreen by production of new growth
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Purplish-blue
Disc: Yellow becoming rose-purple
Flower heads with 50-70 ray flowers
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile

Flower heads in many-headed panicles

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Achene

 

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