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):
Symphyotrichum simmondsii   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum simmondsii   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

Symphyotrichum simmondsii

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

Aster simmondsii

 

COMMON NAME:
Simmonds’s Aster


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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum simmondsii   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Symphyotrichum simmondsii

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

 

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4651

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Florida wet prairies, wet pine flatwoods, ditches, other moist to wet habitats, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon

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

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Long rhizomatous, forming clonal colonies

FLOWER:
Winter/SpringFall
Rays: Light blue-violet to whitish
Disc: Yellow becoming reddish
Flower heads with 18-38 ray flowers
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile

Flower heads in raceme-like or panicle-like arrays, branches spreading or ascending

FRUIT:
Winter/SpringFall
Achene

 

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