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Cascade aster

Habit Perennials, 20–80 cm (caudices stout).
Stems

erect, pilose to stipitate-glandular.

Leaves

mid and distal blades lance-elliptic to oblong, 2.5–7 cm × 5–20 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent abaxially, ± densely cottony and sometimes stipitate-glandular adaxially.

Peduncles

pilose to stipitate-glandular.

Involucres

turbinate, 7–11 mm.

Phyllaries

in 3–5 series (usually reddish at margins and apices), lanceolate (strongly unequal), apices acute to acuminate, abaxial faces puberulent to stipitate-glandular.

Heads

3–20 in racemiform to corymbiform arrays.

Cypselae

pilose;

pappus bristles in 2 series, smooth or ± barbellate.

Rays

5–21, purple.

2n

= 18.

Eucephalus ledophyllus

Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR; WA
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Discussion

eucephalus ledophyllus may intergrade with e. engelmannii in the northern part of its range

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Key
1. Peduncles glandular or not, at least ± woolly or cottony; rays usually 13 or 21
var. ledophyllus
1. Peduncles glandular, not cottony; rays usually 5 or 8
var. covillei
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 41.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Eucephalus
Sibling taxa
E. breweri, E. elegans, E. engelmannii, E. glabratus, E. glaucescens, E. gormanii, E. paucicapitatus, E. tomentellus, E. vialis
Subordinate taxa
E. ledophyllus var. covillei, E. ledophyllus var. ledophyllus
Synonyms Aster engelmannii var. ledophyllus, Aster ledophyllus
Name authority (A. Gray) Greene: Pittonia 3: 55. (1896)
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