Aster solidagineus Michx.

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Asteraceae

• Scientific Name

  Aster solidagineus Michx.

• Description

  Species Description - Essentially glabrous, 2–6 dm from a short stout caudex; lvs entire, linear or narrowly oblong (or the lower oblong-oblanceolate), 2–8 cm × 2–12 mm, more than 5 times as long as wide, sessile, or the lower petiolate (but only slightly if at all larger than the others); infl flat-topped, the heads tending to be in small glomerules; invol cylindric, 4–7 mm, its bracts well imbricate, broad and firm, the outer shortly green-tipped, the inner chartaceous and erose- margined; rays 3–6, white, 5–10 mm; disk-fls 5–10, 4–5.5 mm (dry), white or ochroleucous; achenes ± densely sericeous; pappus white, some of the bristles obscurely clavellate above; 2n=18. Dry woods and open ground; Mass. to Ga., w. to W.Va., s. Ind., w. Ky., and La. (Sericocarpus linifolius)

• Common Names

  narrow-leaved white-topped aster