OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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



(?) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum ontarionis   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

Symphyotrichum ontarionis var. ontarionis

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

Symphyotrichum ontarionis var. ontarionis

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

Symphyotrichum ontarione var. ontarione

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-035?:

Aster lateriflorus   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Aster ontarionis

 

COMMON NAME:
Bottomland Aster


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image of Symphyotrichum ontarionis var. ontarionis, Bottomland Aster

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_asmi14_001_lvd

        

 

 

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

(?) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum ontarionis   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Symphyotrichum ontarione var. ontarione

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-035?:
Aster lateriflorus   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aster ontarionis

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4900

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Bottomlands, swamps, bogs, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia & possibly South Carolina

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal leaves usually absent or withered at flowering, but new rosettes often present)

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Long rhizomatous, forming clonal colonies

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: White
Disc: Cream to light yellow becoming purple to brown
Flower heads with (10)15-26 ray flowers
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile

Flower heads in loose leafy panicles

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Achene

 

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