Eucephalus paucicapitatus |
Eucephalus breweri |
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Olympic mountain-aster |
Brewer's aster |
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Habit | Perennials 20–55 cm (caudices woody). | Perennials, 10–100 cm (caudices woody). |
Stems | ascending to erect, pilose or glandular-pubescent. |
ascending to erect, glabrate or woolly, eglandular or glandular. |
Leaves | mid and distal blades elliptic to elliptic-oblong, 2–4 cm × 4–13 mm, sparsely scabrous to stipitate-glandular abaxially, moderately stipitate-glandular adaxially. |
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 | stipitate-glandular. |
sparsely to densely woolly and glandular. |
Involucres | turbinate-obconic, 7–9 mm. |
turbinate-cylindric, 6–10 mm. |
Phyllaries | in 2–3 series (whitish), lance-linear (unequal), apices acute, abaxial faces stipitate-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 | usually 2–4 in racemiform to corymbiform arrays, somtimes borne singly. |
1–15(–35) in racemiform to corymbiform or paniculiform arrays. |
Cypselae | obconic, pilose; pappus bristles in 2 series, ± barbellate. |
strigose; pappus bristles in 1 series (6–10 mm), barbellate. |
Rays | 7–13(–21), white. |
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2n | = 18. |
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Eucephalus paucicapitatus |
Eucephalus breweri |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Aug. | Flowering Jul–Sep. |
Habitat | Open subalpine meadows or scree slopes | Open coniferous forest and subalpine meadows |
Elevation | 800–3300 m (2600–10800 ft) | 1500–3000(–3500) m (4900–9800(–11500) ft) |
Distribution |
WA; BC
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CA; NV
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Discussion | Eucephalus paucicapitatus is found on Vancouver Island, where it is very uncommon, and the Olympic Peninsula. It is closely related to E. gormanii. (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. 42. | FNA vol. 20, p. 40. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Eucephalus | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Eucephalus |
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Synonyms | Aster engelmannii var. paucicapitatus, Aster paucicapitatus | Chrysopsis breweri, Aster breweri, Heterotheca breweri |
Name authority | (B. L. Robinson) Greene: Pittonia 3: 56. (1896) | (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom: Phytologia 77: 254. (1995) |
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