Symphyotrichum oolentangiense (Riddell) G. L. Nesom (Q2422)

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Symphyotrichum oolentangiense is a taxon with the rank species within the section Symphyotrichum sect. Symphyotrichum
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Symphyotrichum oolentangiense (Riddell) G. L. Nesom
Symphyotrichum oolentangiense is a taxon with the rank species within the section Symphyotrichum sect. Symphyotrichum

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    taxon/id/Symphyotrichum oolentangiense (Riddell) G.L. Nesom
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    Symphyotrichum oolentangiense (Riddell) G.L. Nesom
    Symphyotrichum oolentangiense
    (Riddell) 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.
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    Symphyotrichum oolentangiense
    aster azuré (French)
    sky blue aster (English)
    azure aster (English)
    Azure or skyblue aster (English)
    1 reference
    Newmaster, S.G., A. Lehela, M.J. Oldham, P.W.C. Uhlig & S. McMurray. 1998. Ontario Plant List. Ontario Forest Research Institute, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Forest Information Paper No. 123. 550 pp.
    Mexico (Coahuila)
    Flowering Aug–Oct.
    rocky soils
    dry to wet ( drying ) prairies
    alvars
    glades
    bluffs
    barrens
    deciduous woods
    pine savannas
    short-rhizomatous or with branched, woody caudices.
    Stems 1–5+, erect (straight), glabrate to hispidulous, distally pilosulous to strigillose in arrays.
    Leaves thick, firm, margins entire or crenate-serrate, scabrous, apices mucronate, faces scabrous, abaxial strigose to piloso-strigose or hirsute, adaxial strongly strigose;
    basal withering by flowering, long-petiolate (petioles slightly winged, bases dilated, sheathing, ciliate), blades ovate to lanceovate, 40–150 (–180) × 10–40 (–60) mm, bases ± cordate or rounded to attenuate, margins crenate-serrate to subentire, apices rounded or obtuse to acute;
    proximal cauline petiolate (petioles narrowly winged, clasping), blades ovate or ovatelanceolate to lanceolate, 30–130 × 12–70 mm, gradually or ± abruptly reduced distally, bases rounded to attenuate, margins entire, scabrous, apices acute or attenuate, callus-pointed;
    distal sessile or sometimes short-petiolate and ± winged (appressed or ascending), blades lanceolate or linear-lanceolate to subulate, 5–80 × 1–10 mm, strongly reduced distally (more sharply so on branches), bases attenuate to cuneate or ± rounded, margins entire.
    Heads in open, paniculiform arrays, branches ascending, stiff, sometimes long-arching and peduncles secund, ± ridged, densely leafy with small, ± appressed branch leaves, ± strigose.
    Peduncles ascending, 0.2–6 cm, glabrate, densely bracteate, bracts linear-subulate, scabrous or ciliate-margined, often revolute, grading with phyllaries.
    Involucres campanulate to cylindro-campanulate, 4.5–8 mm.
    Phyllaries in (3–) 4–6 series, appressed or outer slightly spreading, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, strongly unequal, bases indurate 1/2–3/4, margins scarious, erose, hyaline, ciliolate, apical green zones diamond-shaped, apices acute to acuminate or caudate (then tips often involute), mucronulate to apiculate, faces glabrous.
    Ray-florets (10–) 13–20 (–25);
    corollas usually pale to azure blue to violet-purple, (rarely rosy, white or bluish white), laminae (5–) 8–12 (–14) × 1.4–1.7 mm.
    Disc-florets (15–) 20–25 (–30);
    corollas light yellow turning deep purple, 4–5 mm, tubes much shorter than narrowly funnelform throats, lobes triangular to lanceolate, 0.4–0.7 mm (lobes sparsely hairy).
    Cypselae dull purple or stamineous with purple streaks, oblong-obovoid, ± compressed, 1.8–2 mm, 4–5-nerved, faces glabrate to sparsely strigose;
    pappi cream or slightly rose-tinged, 3–4 mm. 2n = 32.