Eucephalus glabratus |
Eucephalus breweri |
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Siskiyou aster, smooth aster |
Brewer's aster |
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Habit | Perennials, 30–60 cm (rhizomes branched). | Perennials, 10–100 cm (caudices woody). |
Stems | ascending to erect, glabrous or sparsely stipitate-glandular. |
ascending to erect, glabrate or woolly, eglandular or glandular. |
Leaves | mid and distal blades lanceolate to lance-ovate, 3–6 cm × 5–15 mm, ± glabrous. |
mid and distal blades linear-lanceolate to ovate, 2–5 cm × 6–15 mm, faces glabrate and eglandular to moderately glandular and/or woolly. |
Peduncles | glabrous or sparsely glandular. |
sparsely to densely woolly and glandular. |
Involucres | campanulate, 8–9 mm. |
turbinate-cylindric, 6–10 mm. |
Phyllaries | in 3–5 series (sometimes reddish apically), lanceolate to narrowly ovate (unequal), apices acute, abaxial glabrous or sparsely glandular. |
in 3–4 series (sometimes reddish along margins), lance-linear to lance-oblong, ± subequal, margins eciliate, apices acuminate, abaxial faces glabrate and eglandular to moderately woolly or glandular. |
Heads | 3–8 in corymbiform arrays. |
1–15(–35) in racemiform to corymbiform or paniculiform arrays. |
Cypselae | appressed-pilose; pappus bristles in 2 series, ± smooth. |
strigose; pappus bristles in 1 series (6–10 mm), barbellate. |
Rays | 0 or 1–2(–4), violet-purple. |
0. |
2n | = 18. |
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Eucephalus glabratus |
Eucephalus breweri |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Aug. | Flowering Jul–Sep. |
Habitat | Dry open oak or coniferous forest or chaparral | Open coniferous forest and subalpine meadows |
Elevation | 700–2300 m (2300–7500 ft) | 1500–3000(–3500) m (4900–9800(–11500) ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR
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CA; NV
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Discussion | Eucephalus glabratus is found in the Klamath Mountains of northwestern California and southwestern Oregon. The species is reported to intergrade with E. breweri, E. ledophyllus, and E. tomentellus. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Eucephalus breweri is found in the Sierra Nevada. Specimens at the northern edge of the range may intergrade with E. glabratus and E. tomentellus. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 41. | FNA vol. 20, p. 40. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Eucephalus | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Eucephalus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Aster brickellioides var. glabratus, Aster siskiyouensis, E. glandulosus | Chrysopsis breweri, Aster breweri, Heterotheca breweri |
Name authority | (Greene) Greene: Pittonia 3: 56. (1896) | (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom: Phytologia 77: 254. (1995) |
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