Ionactis linariifolia |
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aster à feuilles de linaires, flax-leaf ankle-aster, flax-leaf stiff-aster, flaxleaf aster, flaxleaf whitetop or aster |
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Habit | Plants 10–50(–70) cm (commonly cespitose; rhizomes compact, crownlike, woody, fibrous-rooted). |
Stems | proximally herbaceous or slightly woody, eglandular. |
Leaves | separated by evident internodes; blades uniform, linear to narrowly oblong or oblanceolate, 12–40 mm, margins green, faces glabrous, eglandular. |
Involucres | 6–9 mm. |
Disc florets | bisexual, fertile; corollas (4.5–)5–7 mm. |
Heads | usually in loose, corymbiform arrays, sometimes borne singly. |
Cypselae | (2.5–)3.5–4 mm, eglandular. |
2n | = 18. |
Ionactis linariifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering (Jun–)Sep–Nov. |
Habitat | Sandy habitats, often seeps or other moist sites, commonly in longleaf pine communities along Gulf Coast, or inland sites of rocky hills, ridges, bluffs, sometimes in clay, in oak pine woods, sandy cracks and ledges of acid rocks in stream falls or rapids, open jackpine stands on sand |
Elevation | 5–800(–900) m (0–2600(–3000) ft) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MO; MS; NC; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; TN; TX; VA; VT; WI; WV; NB; QC
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Discussion | Ionactis linariifolia was noted by M. L. Fernald (1950) to occur in “s. Minn.”; G. B. Ownbey and T. Morley (1991) did not include it for Minnesota. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 83. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Ionactis |
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Synonyms | Aster linariifolius, Aster linariifolius var. victorinii |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) Greene: Pittonia 3: 245. (1897) |
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