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Symphyotrichum patens var. gracile
Photo is of parent taxon

late purple aster
Habit Plants slender (long-branched).
Involucres

campanulate, 5.5–6.5 mm.
Phyllaries

in 4–5 series, squarrose, acute to acuminate, densely strigillose, sparsely stipitate-glandular;

mid 0.7–1 mm wide.
2n

= 10, 20.

Symphyotrichum patens var. gracile
Phenology Flowering late Aug–early Nov.
Habitat Dry oak-pine and oak-hickory woodlands
Elevation 0–800+ m (0–2600+ ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; AR; FL; GA; KS; LA; MD; MO; MS; NC; OK; SC; TN; TX; VA
Discussion

Variety gracile is most common in the southwestern part of the species range, in the western Coastal Plains and Central Lowland, and is infrequent to the east. It is mostly diploid, some tetraploids occurring in Texas and Louisiana.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 489.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Symphyotrichum > subg. Virgulus > Symphyotrichum patens
Sibling taxa
S. patens var. patens, S. patens var. patentissimum
Synonyms Aster patens var. gracilis, Aster patens var. tenuicaulis, Aster tenuicaulis, Virgulus patens var. gracilis
Name authority (Hooker) G. L. Nesom: Phytologia 77: 288. (1995)
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