Flora of North America species comparison

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Eucephalus elegans

elegant aster
Habit Perennials 30–70 cm (caudices woody; herbage scabrous).
Stems

erect, moderately scabrous and/or glandular.
Leaves

mid and cauline blades linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, 2–6 cm × 3–10 mm, faces moderately scabrous and ± short-stipitate-glandular.
Peduncles

glandular-puberulent.
Involucres

turbinate-cylindric, 6–9 mm.
Phyllaries

in 3–5 series (often purplish at margins), ovate, margins eciliate, apices acute, abaxial faces moderately to densely puberulent and glandular.
Heads

3–8(–15) in racemiform to corymbiform arrays.
Cypselae

strigose;

pappus bristles in 2 series, barbellate.
Rays

usually 5 or 8, purple.
2n

= 18.

Eucephalus elegans
Phenology Flowering Jul–Aug.
Habitat Open meadows, aspen forests, rocky open slopes
Elevation 1100–3200 m (3600–10500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CO; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT
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Source FNA vol. 20, p. 40.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Eucephalus
Sibling taxa
E. breweri, E. engelmannii, E. glabratus, E. glaucescens, E. gormanii, E. ledophyllus, E. paucicapitatus, E. tomentellus, E. vialis
Synonyms Aster perelegans, E. perelegans
Name authority Nuttall: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 7: 298. (1840)
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