Flora of North America species comparison

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Almutaster pauciflorus

alkali-marsh aster, marsh alkali aster
Habit Plants laxly colonial.
Stems

sometimes reddish at base.
Leaves

blades 10–100 mm, margins sometimes ciliate or (distal) stipitate-glandular, apices mucronulate;

basal sometimes marcescent, petiole bases widened, clasping, apices obtuse or acute;

cauline reduced distally, subclasping, apices acute.
Peduncle

bracts 2–9, glandular.
Ray floret

laminae 5–8 mm.
Phyllaries

± green, margins erose-hyaline, inner more widely so, apices mucronulate.
Heads

(1–)3–10(–30+), each terminating long, ascending branch.
Cypselae

golden brown, ribs stramineous.
2n

= 18.

Almutaster pauciflorus
Phenology Flowering spring–fall.
Habitat Damp alkaline places, alluvial soils, with halophytic vegetation, inland salt marshes, along streams in ravines, ditches, in desert and dry prairie areas
Elevation 200–2400 m (700–7900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; CO; ND; NM; NV; SD; TX; UT; WY; AB; MB; NT; SK; Mexico
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Source FNA vol. 20, p. 461.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Almutaster
Synonyms Aster pauciflorus
Name authority (Nuttall) Á. Löve & D. Löve: Taxon 31: 356. (1982)
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