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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 lateriflorum   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum lateriflorum var. lateriflorum   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

Symphyotrichum lateriflorum

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

Symphyotrichum lateriflorum

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Symphyotrichum lateriflorum var. angustifolium

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Symphyotrichum lateriflorum var. horizontale

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Symphyotrichum lateriflorum var. lateriflorum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Aster lateriflorus

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

Aster lateriflorus   FAMILY Asteraceae

 

COMMON NAME:
Calico Aster, Starved Aster, Goblet Aster


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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_ashi4_001_lvd

        

image of Symphyotrichum lateriflorum, Calico Aster, Starved Aster, Goblet Aster

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_asla6_001_lvd

        

image of Symphyotrichum lateriflorum, Calico Aster, Starved Aster, Goblet Aster

JK Marlow    jkm100730_206

July    Jackson County    NC

Balsam Mountain Preserve

image of Symphyotrichum lateriflorum, Calico Aster, Starved Aster, Goblet Aster

JK Marlow    jkm220722_9251

July    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

Long and often horizontally spreading branches with flowering heads near or at the ends, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

image of Symphyotrichum lateriflorum, Calico Aster, Starved Aster, Goblet Aster

JK Marlow    jkm120930_179

September    Greenville County    SC

image of Symphyotrichum lateriflorum, Calico Aster, Starved Aster, Goblet Aster

JK Marlow    jkm120930_179b

September    Greenville County    SC

Less than 15 white rays (occasionally w a lavender tinge). Disk purplish-red, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).


click here to see other plants that look similar to this COMPARE small white asters

image of Symphyotrichum lateriflorum, Calico Aster, Starved Aster, Goblet Aster

JK Marlow    jkm120930_184

September    Greenville County    SC

image of Symphyotrichum lateriflorum, Calico Aster, Starved Aster, Goblet Aster

JK Marlow    jkm141025_330

October    Greenville County    SC

Swamp Rabbit Trail

Leaves thin, mem­branous, margins serrate to serrulate,...

image of Symphyotrichum lateriflorum, Calico Aster, Starved Aster, Goblet Aster

JK Marlow    jkm141025_334

October    Greenville County    SC

Swamp Rabbit Trail

...progressively reduced distally, branch leaves abruptly smaller, margins sometimes entire, per Flora of North America.

image of Symphyotrichum lateriflorum, Calico Aster, Starved Aster, Goblet Aster

JK Marlow    jkm141025_336

October    Greenville County    SC

Swamp Rabbit Trail

image of Symphyotrichum lateriflorum, Calico Aster, Starved Aster, Goblet Aster

JK Marlow    jkm141025_337

October    Greenville County    SC

Swamp Rabbit Trail

New vernal rosettes often developing at flowering, per Flora of North America.

image of Symphyotrichum lateriflorum, Calico Aster, Starved Aster, Goblet Aster

JK Marlow    jkm181028_5375

October    McCormick County    SC

Parks Mill

Involucres turbinate; bracts whitish with green midrib, 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 Symphyotrichum lateriflorum, Calico Aster, Starved Aster, Goblet Aster

JK Marlow    jkm201016_7780

October    Greenville County    SC

image of Symphyotrichum lateriflorum, Calico Aster, Starved Aster, Goblet Aster

JK Marlow    jkm221004_0218

October    Greenville County    SC

Bald Rock Heritage Preserve

Disc corollas white to cream turning pink to purplish, lobes strongly reflexed, per Weakley's Flora (2022).

 

 

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

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Symphyotrichum lateriflorum var. lateriflorum   FAMILY Asteraceae

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

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

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Symphyotrichum lateriflorum var. angustifolium

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Symphyotrichum lateriflorum var. horizontale

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Symphyotrichum lateriflorum var. lateriflorum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Aster lateriflorus

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

 

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Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Mesic to dry upland forests and woodlands, swamps, wet pine flatwoods, clearings, old fields, roadsides, other disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)

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

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Cespitose [growing in dense tufts, clumping], with short rhizomes or short branched caudices

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: White
Disc: Whitish-cream becoming pink to purplish
Flower heads with 8-15(20) 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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