Symphyotrichum falcatum (Lindley) G. L. Nesom (Q2511)

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Symphyotrichum falcatum is a taxon with the rank species within the subgenus Symphyotrichum subg. Virgulus
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Symphyotrichum falcatum (Lindley) G. L. Nesom
Symphyotrichum falcatum is a taxon with the rank species within the subgenus Symphyotrichum subg. Virgulus

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    taxon/id/Symphyotrichum falcatum (Lindley) G.L. Nesom
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    Symphyotrichum falcatum (Lindley) G.L. Nesom
    Symphyotrichum falcatum
    (Lindley) G.L. Nesom
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 20: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 7: Asteraceae, part 2. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Symphyotrichum falcatum
    white prairie aster (English)
    western heath aster (English)
    little grey aster (English)
    creeping white prairie aster (English)
    aster en faux (French)
    Western heath or white prairie aster (English)
    n Mexico
    with branched rhizomes or with ± cormoid, branched, woody caudices.
    Stems 1–5+, ascending to erect (grayish brown to brown), moderately to densely hairy.
    Leaves (light grayish green) firm, margins entire, strigose, apices ± spine-tipped;
    basal withering by flowering, sessile, blades oblanceolate, 10–40 × 3–10 mm, bases attenuate, margins usually entire, rarely remotely serrate, scabrous, apices acute to obtuse, rounded to mucronulate-spinose, faces glabrate to moderately strigose;
    proximal cauline sessile, blades linear-oblanceolate to oblong, 10–40 (–60) × 1.5–4 (–7) mm, reduced distally, bases cuneate, margins entire, coarsely ciliate, apices acute or obtuse, faces sparsely to densely appressed hispido-strigose;
    distal sessile, blades linear-oblong to linear-lanceolate, 25–45 × 2–3 mm, bases cuneate, margins entire, apices acute, faces moderately to densely strigose.
    Heads [(1–) 10–200+] in racemiform to diffuse-paniculiform arrays (1–10+ per branch, usually not crowded).
    Peduncles 0.2–4 cm, densely hairy, bracts 1–3+, linear to lanceolate, densely hairy.
    Involucres campanulate, (4.5–) 5–8 mm.
    Phyllaries in 3–4 series, outer oblanceolate to spatulate (1.5–2 mm), inner linear-lanceolate (3–4 mm), unequal, bases (whitish to tan) ± indurate in basal 1/2–3/4, margins hyaline, scabrous proximally, green zones diamond-shaped, in distal 1/4–1/2, apices (outer) acute to obtuse, clear spine-tipped, spreading to reflexed, (inner) acuminate to attenuate, faces sparsely to moderately hispid-strigose.
    Ray-florets (15–) 20–35;
    corollas usually white, sometimes blue or pink, laminae (8–) 18–30 × 1.1–1.4 mm.
    Disc-florets (8–) 18–30;
    corollas yellow becoming brown, 2–2.5 mm, lobes triangular, 0.7–1.2 mm, glabrous.
    Cypselae dark-brown, obovoid, not compressed, 2–2.5 mm, faint-nerved, faces densely strigose;
    pappi whitish, 4.5–6 mm.