Symphyotrichum boreale (Torrey & A. Gray) Á. Löve & D. Löve (Q2417)

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Symphyotrichum boreale is a taxon with the rank species within the section Symphyotrichum sect. Symphyotrichum
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Symphyotrichum boreale (Torrey & A. Gray) Á. Löve & D. Löve
Symphyotrichum boreale is a taxon with the rank species within the section Symphyotrichum sect. Symphyotrichum

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    taxon/id/Symphyotrichum boreale (Torrey & A. Gray) Á. Löve & D. Löve
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    Symphyotrichum boreale (Torrey & A. Gray) Á. Löve & D. Löve
    Symphyotrichum boreale
    (Torrey & A. Gray) Á. Löve & D. Löve
    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.
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    Symphyotrichum boreale
    (Torrey & A. Gray) Á. Löve & D. Löve
    aster boréal (French)
    rush aster (English)
    rush-leaved aster (English)
    boreal aster (English)
    northern bog aster (English)
    slender white aster (English)
    boreal American aster (English)
    Rush or slender white or northern bog aster (English)
    aster boréal (English)
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    Newfoundland, CA
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    Kotanen, P.M. 2005. List of the Vascular Plants of Akimiki Island, Nunavut Territory. www.utm.utoronto.ca/~w3pkota/akimiskiflora/akiplants.doc (consulted 2010-08) http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~w3pkota/akimiskiflora/akiplants.doc
    Flowering Aug–Oct.
    marshes
    open cedar-tamarack-spruce swamps
    stream
    pond margins
    wet meadows
    swales
    calcareous
    0–1500+ m
    Stems 1–3+, erect (straight, slender, often reddish to slightly glaucous proximally), glabrous.
    Leaves stiff, margins entire to sparsely subserrulate, revolute, scabrellous, apices mucronulate, sometimes with callous point, faces glabrous, abaxial midveins sometimes sparsely strigillose;
    basal withering by flowering, subpetiolate to petiolate, petioles winged, base dilated, sheathing, eciliate, blades linear-oblanceolate to ovate or suborbiculate, 20–150 × 5–60 mm, bases attenuate, margins shallowly serrate or entire, apices obtuse to rounded;
    proximal cauline withering by flowering, sessile or subpetiolate, petioles widely winged, bases strongly clasping, blades linear-lanceolate to linear, 15–90 × 2–12 mm, bases attenuate to cuneate or subauriculate, ± clasping, apices obtuse to acute;
    distal sessile, blades linear-lanceolate (sometimes lanceolate) to linear, (40–) 60–150 × 2–6 (–8) mm, ± reduced distally, bases subauriculate, subclasping, margins entire or sometimes remotely serrulate, apices acute.
    Heads borne singly or in open, often lax, racemiform or paniculiform arrays, branches ascending, sparsely leafy.
    Peduncles 0.5–5 cm, glabrous, bracts 1–3, remote, linear-lanceolate to linear, reduced distally, not grading into phyllaries (sometimes subtending heads).
    Involucres cylindro-campanulate, (4–) 5–8 mm.
    Phyllaries in 4–5 series, usually appressed, rarely outer recurved, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate (outer) to linear (innermost) ± unequal to sometimes subequal, bases indurate 1/3–1/2 (sometimes not indurate), margins scarious, erose, hyaline or tinged with reddish purple, sparsely ciliolate, green zones lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, apices acute to acuminate, mucronate to apiculate, often purple or reddish purple (particularly inner), faces glabrous.
    Ray-florets (15–) 25–35 (–41);
    corollas white to often pale rose, pale-purple or lavender, laminae (7–) 10–15 (–20) × 1.1–1.5 mm.
    Disc-florets (15–) 25–30 (–40);
    corollas cream or pale-yellow becoming pink or brown purple, 3.7–6.6 mm, tubes shorter than funnelform throats, lobes triangular, 0.5–1 mm.
    Cypselae yellowish tan or purple to brownish with purple streaks or grayish tan (nerves stramineous), obovoid, ± compressed, 0.6–2 mm, 3–5-nerved, faces sparsely strigillose;
    pappi white, 2.7–6.4 mm. 2n = 16, 32, 48, 64.