Flora of North America species comparison

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Symphyotrichum patens var. patens
Photo is of parent taxon

late purple aster
Habit Plants robust.
Involucres

campanulate, 5.5–7.5 mm.
Phyllaries

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

mid 1–1.2 mm wide.
2n

= 10, 20.

Symphyotrichum patens var. patens
Phenology Flowering (Aug–)Sept–Nov(–Dec).
Habitat Sandy, loamy, shaley, or clayey soils, dry woods, open oak and pine woods, fields, roadsides, disturbed habitats
Elevation 0–100+ m (0–300+ ft)
Distribution
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AL; AR; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MO; MS; NC; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV
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Discussion

Variety patens is found in the southern Central Lowland, the Appalachian Mountains, the Piedmont, and the Coastal Plains. Aster patens forma rosea Svenson is a color morph that is not recognized here.

(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. gracile, S. patens var. patentissimum
Synonyms Aster amplexicaulis, Aster virgatus
Name authority unknown
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