Oclemena nemoralis (Aiton) Greene (Q2277)

taxon name

Oclemena nemoralis

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taxon authority

(Aiton) Greene

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taxon rank

species

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taxon status

accepted

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common name

aster des tourbières (French)

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aster des bois (French)

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bog aster (English)

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leafy bog aster (English)

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Bog aster (English)

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aster des tourbières (English)

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VasCan taxon numeric id

3314

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distribution

CA-ON

present

native

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Newmaster, S.G. & S. Ragupathy. 2005. Flora Ontario - Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS), Phase I. University of Guelph, Canada. http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis/

CA-QC

present

native

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Marie-Victorin, Fr. 1995. Flore laurentienne. 3e éd. Mise à jour et annotée par L. Brouillet, S.G. Hay, I. Goulet, M. Blondeau, J. Cayouette et J. Labrecque. Gaétan Morin éditeur. 1093 pp.

CA-NB

present

native

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Hinds, H.R. 2000. Flora of New Brunswick : a manual for the identification of the vascular plants of New Brunswick. 2nd edition. Biology Department, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. 699 pp.

CA-PE

present

native

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Catling, P.M., D.S. Erskine & R.B. MacLaren. 1985. The Plants of Prince Edward Island with new records, nomenclatural changes, and corrections and deletions. Agriculture Canada, Research Branch, Ottawa. Publication 1798. 272 pp.

CA-NS

present

native

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Zinck, M. 1998. Roland's Flora of Nova Scotia. Nimber Publishing & Nova Scotia Museum. Halifax, N. S. 2 vols. 1297 pp.

Newfoundland, CA

present

native

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Meades, S., S.G. Hay & L. Brouillet. 2000. Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Newfoundland and Labrador. Published in association with A Digital Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador Vascular Plants. http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm (consulted 2009-09-02) http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm

Labrador, CA

present

native

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Meades, S., S.G. Hay & L. Brouillet. 2000. Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Newfoundland and Labrador. Published in association with A Digital Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador Vascular Plants. http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm (consulted 2009-09-02) http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm

FR-PM

present

native

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Etcheberry, R. 1989. Plantes de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon. Unpublished list (MT).

St. Pierre and Miquelon

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CA-NB

N.B.

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CA-NL

Nfld. and Labr.

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CA-NS

N.S.

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CA-ON

Ont.

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CA-PE

P.E.I.

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CA-QC

Que.

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US-CT

Conn.

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US-DE

Del.

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US-ME

Maine

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US-MD

Md.

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US-MA

Mass.

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US-MI

Mich.

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US-NH

N.H.

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US-NJ

N.J.

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US-NY

N.Y.

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US-PA

Pa.

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US-RI

R.I.

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US-VT

Vt.

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parent taxon

Oclemena Greene

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taxon habit

herb

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GBIF taxon key

3099208

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Global Biodiversity Information Facility

IUCN Redlist Category

LC

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Global Biodiversity Information Facility

phenology

Flowering summer–early fall.

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taxon habitat

sphagnum bogs

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poor fens

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edges

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floating bogs

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sandy shores

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acidic

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peaty lakeshores

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pond margins

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cracks

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acidic

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barren rocks

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perhumid areas

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damp

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elevation

0–900 m

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special status

E

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taxon description fragment

Plants 5–70 (–90) cm (± loosely clonal, sometimes clustered; rhizomes subsuperficial, elongate, herbaceous or woody, slender, sometimes branched).

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d0_s0

Stems 1, erect, thin (1–2 mm diam.), straight, sparsely strigillose.

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d0_s1

Leaves 30–100+, crowded, proximal sometimes withering by flowering;

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d0_s2

sessile;

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d0_s3

blades linear to linear-lanceolate, 10–60 × 1–8 mm, bases rounded, margins recurved, appearing entire but remotely serrulate, scabrous, teeth minute, apices obtuse to acute, abaxial faces sparsely hispid, densely stipitate-glandular, adaxial scabrous;

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d0_s4

distal slightly reduced, rapidly becoming bracts in arrays.

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d0_s5

Heads 1–15+, usually borne singly, sometimes in loose corymbiform arrays, branches ascending, at acute angles with stems.

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d0_s6

Peduncles filiform, 3–7 cm, ± strigillose, eglandular;

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d0_s7

bracts 3–8, small, linear, scabrous.

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d0_s8

Involucres (5–) 6–7.5 mm.

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d0_s9

Phyllaries lance-linear to linear, margins often pinkish distally, sparsely to moderately strigillose, sometimes sparsely glandular.

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d0_s10

Ray-florets 13–25;

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d0_s11

corollas pale to deep pink, seldom white, 11–18 × 1.2–2.6 mm.

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d0_s12

Disc-florets 20–35;

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d0_s13

corollas abruptly ampliate, 5–7.5 mm, glabrous;

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d0_s14

tubes shorter than or equal to tubular throats, glabrous, lobes erect, triangular, 0.5–1 mm.

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d0_s15

Cypselae tan, fusiform-obconic, ± compressed, 1.9–3 mm, ribs 5–8 (paler than bodies), faces sparsely strigillose or glabrous, gland-dotted;

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d0_s16

pappi of yellowish or pale salmon-colored bristles in 2 (–3) series, ± equal to disc corollas (outer shorter and very sparse, innermost apically attenuate).

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d0_s17

2n = 18.

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