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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Symphyotrichum depauperatum   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum depauperatum   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Symphyotrichum depauperatum

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

Symphyotrichum depauperatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Symphyotrichum depauperatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Aster depauperatus

 

COMMON NAME:
Serpentine Aster


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image of Symphyotrichum depauperatum, Serpentine Aster

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_asde9_001_lvd

        


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image of Symphyotrichum depauperatum, Serpentine Aster

Alan S. Weakley    asw_3452638988398641

May    Granville County    NC

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Symphyotrichum depauperatum   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum depauperatum   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Symphyotrichum depauperatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Symphyotrichum depauperatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Symphyotrichum depauperatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aster depauperatus

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4790

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Glades and barrens over ultramafic (serpentine) or mafic (diabase) rocks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: White
Disc: Yellow becoming brown
Flower heads with 7-14 ray flowers
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile

Flower heads in open wide paniculiform arrays (branches arching & abundantly bracteate)

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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