Symphyotrichum robynsianum |
Symphyotrichum elliottii |
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aster à longues feuilles, longleaf aster, Robyns' aster |
Elliott's aster, marsh American-aster |
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Habit | Perennials, 10–80 cm, colonial; long-rhizomatous. | Perennials, 60–160(–200) cm, colonial; long-rhizomatous. |
Stems | 1, erect (± flexuous, often reddish), glabrous, hairy in lines distally. |
1, erect (straight, stout, sometimes purplish pink), mostly glabrous, hirsutulous in arrays, mainly in lines. |
Leaves | stiff, margins sparsely serrulate or entire, ± revolute, scabrous, apices acute to acuminate, mucronulate, faces glabrous, sometimes midveins hairy; basal withering by flowering, long-petiolate, petioles narrowly winged, bases sheathing, blades lanceolate, ca. 20 × 3–5 mm, slightly attenuate to narrowly cuneate; proximal cauline withering by flowering, sessile or subpetiolate, blades linear-lanceolate to -oblanceolate, 100–200 × 4–8 mm, bases cuneate to attenuate, clasping; distal sessile, blades linear-lanceolate to linear, 10–110 × 1–7 mm, progressively reduced distally, bases cuneate to rounded, slightly clasping or not, margins entire. |
firm, margins serrate to serrulate, scabridulous, apices acute to shortly acuminate, apiculate to mucronate, abaxial faces glabrous, adaxial scabridulous; basal withering by flowering, long-petiolate (petioles narrowly winged, sheathing), blades elliptic, 50–250 × 10–50 mm, bases attenuate; proximal cauline withering by flowering, long-petiolate to subpetiolate (petioles winged, bases expanded, sheathing), blades elliptic to lanceolate or oblanceolate, gradually reduced distally, 70–110 × 15–35 mm, bases attenuate; distal subpetiolate or sessile, (petioles broadly winged, bases sheathing to clasping), blades elliptic, 10–70 × 1–30 mm, progressively reduced distally, more strongly so on branches, bases attenuate to cuneate, clasping, margins serrulate or entire. |
Peduncles | glabrous or ± densely pilose in lines, bracts 1–4, linear, sometimes inrolled distally, clasping, ciliate, distal 1–2 often subtending and surpassing involucres. |
0.5–2.5 cm, to erect, hirsute, bracts 3–5, linear, grading into phyllaries. |
Involucres | campanulate, 5–8.5 mm. |
narrowly campanulate, 8–11 mm. |
Ray florets | 20–35; corollas dark blue-violet, seldom white, laminae 8–13 × 1–1.5 mm. |
(25–)30–46+; corollas pink or sometimes lavender, laminae 7–14 × 0.8–1.6 mm. |
Disc florets | (18–)23–40; corollas yellow, 4–6.5 mm, tubes shorter than funnelform throats, lobes lanceolate, 0.8–1 mm. |
25–35+; corollas pale yellow becoming pink and later brown, 6–6.2 mm, tubes slightly shorter than narrowly funnelform limbs, lobes narrowly triangular to lanceolate, 0.8–1 mm. |
Phyllaries | in 3–4 series, oblong-lanceolate, subequal, bases indurate 1/3–3/4, margins scarious, erose, hyaline, ciliate proximally, sparsely ciliolate distally, green zones lanceolate to linear, sometimes outer ± foliaceous, apices acuminate to long-acuminate, often foliaceous, mucronate to apiculate, faces glabrous, eglandular. |
in 5–6 series, linear-lanceolate or -oblanceolate to linear, slightly unequal, bases indurate 1/3–1/2, margins narrowly scarious, hyaline, sparsely and remotely ciliolate, green zones lanceolate to linear, outer distally foliaceous, sometimes constricted in middle, apices spreading to squarrose, long-acuminate, apiculate, faces glabrous. |
Heads | in elongate, open, narrow, paniculiform or racemiform arrays, branches ascending, short, leafy, branch leaves smaller and reduced distally (heads 1–3 per branch). |
in paniculiform arrays, branches strongly ascending, leafy. |
Cypselae | tan, obovoid, compressed, ca. 2.2–2.4 mm, 5–6-nerved, faces sparsely strigillose; pappi pinkish, 7–8 mm. |
tan to pale brown, oblanceoloid, compressed, 2–2.7 mm, 3–4-nerved, faces glabrous or sparsely hairy; pappi sordid or whitish, 5.5–5.8 mm. |
2n | = 64, 80. |
= 16. |
Symphyotrichum robynsianum |
Symphyotrichum elliottii |
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Phenology | Flowering Aug–Sep. | Flowering Aug–Oct. |
Habitat | Wet or damp, open, sandy, gravelly, or rocky grounds, often calcareous, cracks in rocky stream or lake shores, limestone alvars, seasonally wet glades and swales, jackpine outwash plains | Moist, low sites, swamps, bogs, marshes, brackish marshes |
Elevation | 10–400 m (0–1300 ft) | 0–50+ m (0–200+ ft) |
Distribution |
MI; MN; WI; MB; ON; QC
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AL; FL; GA; LA; NC; SC; VA
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Discussion | The name Aster longifolius Lamarck has been misapplied to this taxon. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Symphyotrichum elliottii grows on the Atlantic coastal plain. It is of conservation concern in some states. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 530. | FNA vol. 20, p. 524. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Symphyotrichum > subg. Symphyotrichum > sect. Symphyotrichum | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Symphyotrichum > subg. Symphyotrichum > sect. Symphyotrichum |
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Synonyms | Aster robynsianus | Aster elliottii |
Name authority | (J. Rousseau) Brouillet & Labrecque: Phytologia 82: 138. (1997) | (Torrey & A. Gray) G. L. Nesom: Phytologia 77: 280. (1995) |
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