Symphyotrichum racemosum (Elliott) G. L. Nesom (Q2424)

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

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    taxon/id/Symphyotrichum racemosum (Elliott) G.L. Nesom
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    Symphyotrichum racemosum (Elliott) G.L. Nesom
    Symphyotrichum racemosum
    (Elliott) 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 racemosum
    aster à grappes (French)
    small white aster (English)
    smooth white old field aster (English)
    Small white or smooth white oldfield aster (English)
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    Herbier Marie-Victorin (MT). Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC. Specimen. http://www.biodiversite.umontreal.ca/herbier-marie-victorin?lang=en
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    Herbier Marie-Victorin (MT). Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC. Specimen. http://www.biodiversite.umontreal.ca/herbier-marie-victorin?lang=en
    1 reference
    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.
    Flowering Aug–Oct.
    moist to wet
    moist to alluvial soils
    marshes
    savannas
    wet meadows
    prairie swales
    swamps
    borders
    open bottomwoods
    brackish
    long-rhizomatous or with woody caudices.
    Stems 1–3+, erect (straight), glabrous or glabrate.
    Leaves thin, margins often ± revolute, scabrous, apices mucronate to mucronulate, faces glabrous or abaxial minutely pilosulous, cauline with clusters of smaller leaves in most axils;
    basal withering by flowering (new vernal rosettes often present), petiolate (petioles narrowly winged, sheathing, strigoso-ciliate), blades spatulate to oblanceolate, 5–40 × 5–15 mm, bases attenuate or cuneate to rounded, margins crenate-serrate, apices obtuse to acuminate;
    proximal cauline withering by flowering, petiolate or subpetiolate (proximalmost) or sessile (petioles winged, sparsely long strigoso-ciliate), blades elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate to lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 20–70 × 3–20 mm, progressively reduced distally, bases clasping, margins becoming short-ciliate distally;
    distal (ascending or spreading) usually sessile, sometimes subpetiolate, blades linear-lanceolate to linear, 5–60+ × 1–8 mm, notably unequal in size, reduced distally, abruptly so on branches, bases cuneate to attenuate, margins serrulate or entire.
    Heads in diffuse, ± pyramidal, paniculiform arrays, branches ± lax, spreading horizontally or arching, racemiform, subtended by patent to reflexed branch leaves, often crowded but not (or barely) secund.
    Peduncles slender, 0.2–3+ cm or subsessile, hairy in lines, bracts 5–15, linear-elliptic to acicular, 1–2 mm, glabrous, grading into phyllaries.
    Involucres cylindric, (2.5–) 3.5–4.5 (–5.5) mm.
    Phyllaries in 4–6 series, appressed or outer ± spreading, oblong-lanceolate to linear (innermost), unequal, bases indurate 1/4–1/2, margins narrowly scarious, hyaline, ciliolate, green zones oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, apices acute to acuminate, mucronate, sometimes lightly purple-tinged, faces glabrous.
    Ray-florets (12–) 16–20;
    corollas usually white, rarely pink, laminae 5–8 × 0.5–1.2 mm.
    Disc-florets 10–20 (–25);
    corollas cream or pale-yellow becoming pink or red, (2.5–) 3–4.5 mm, tubes shorter than narrowly funnelform throats, lobes recurved to erect, lanceolate, 0.5–1 mm.
    Cypselae gray to tan, obovoid, ± compressed, 1–1.8 mm, 4–5-nerved (faint), faces sparsely strigillose or sericeus;
    pappi white, 2.5–3.5 mm. 2n = 16.