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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 firmum   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum puniceum var. puniceum   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Symphyotrichum puniceum var. puniceum

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

Symphyotrichum firmum

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Symphyotrichum puniceum var. puniceum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)

Aster firmus

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-020?:

Aster puniceus   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

Aster lucidulus

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

Aster puniceus var. firmus

 

COMMON NAME:
Shining Aster, Glossyleaf Aster


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image of Symphyotrichum firmum, Shining Aster, Glossyleaf Aster

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_aspu5_001_lvd

        

 

 

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

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum puniceum var. puniceum   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Symphyotrichum puniceum var. puniceum

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

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Symphyotrichum puniceum var. puniceum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Aster firmus

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-020?:
Aster puniceus   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aster lucidulus

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aster puniceus var. firmus

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4944

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Peaty wetlands and seepages, fens, wet prairies, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia & possibly North Carolina

Rare

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

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Blue-violet
Disc: Yellow or cream becoming reddish-purple
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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