Aster paternus Cronquist
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Asteraceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Stems 1.5–6 dm from a branched caudex, generally scabrous-puberulent in the infl; lvs ciliate-margined and sometimes hairy over the surface as well, at least some of them evidently toothed, the basal and lower cauline ones generally enlarged and persistent, broadly oblanceolate to obovate, elliptic, or even subrotund, petiolate, the blade 1.5–10 × 1–4.5 cm; cauline lvs becoming sessile upward, otherwise scarcely to strongly reduced; infl corymbiform, flat- topped, the heads commonly in small glomerules; invol glabrous, narrow, 5–9 mm, its bracts well imbricate, broad, with short spreading green tip, or the inner wholly chartaceous; rays 4–8, white (pink), 4–8 mm; disk-fls 9–20, 4–5.5 mm (dry), white or ochroleucous, or seldom lavender; achenes densely sericeous, the upper hairs simulating an outer pappus; pappus-bristles usually reddish, obscurely clavellate above; 2n=18. Dry woods; Me. and Vt. to Ga., w. to s. O., W.Va., e. Ky., e. Tenn., and e. Ala. (Sericocarpus asteroides)
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Common Names
toothed white-topped aster