Symphyotrichum ciliatum (Ledebour) G. L. Nesom (Q2482)

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Symphyotrichum ciliatum is a taxon with the rank species within the section Symphyotrichum sect. Conyzopsis
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Symphyotrichum ciliatum (Ledebour) G. L. Nesom
Symphyotrichum ciliatum is a taxon with the rank species within the section Symphyotrichum sect. Conyzopsis

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    taxon/id/Symphyotrichum ciliatum (Ledebour) G.L. Nesom
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    Symphyotrichum ciliatum (Ledebour) G.L. Nesom
    Symphyotrichum ciliatum
    (Ledebour) 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 ciliatum
    aster à rayons courts (French)
    aster à courts rayons (French)
    rayless alkali aster (English)
    rayless annual aster (English)
    rayless aster (English)
    alkali aster (English)
    alkali American aster (English)
    Rayless annual or rayless alkali aster (English)
    aster cilié (English)
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    n Eurasia (w to Rumania)
    Flowering Aug–Oct.
    brackish soils
    prairies
    steppes
    salt marshes
    hudson bay
    summer-receding prairie ponds
    open grounds
    loess hills
    irrigation channels
    winter-salted highways
    railroads
    waste grounds
    0–2000+ m
    Stems 1, ascending to erect (straight), bluish yellowish green, often red-tinged, ± succulent, glabrous.
    Leaves bluish (green) thin, sometimes ± fleshy, margins usually entire, sometimes serrulate, strigoso-ciliate to scabrous, midribs conspicuous, apices acute to short-acuminate, faces glabrous;
    basal withering by flowering, petiolate, blades spatulate, 15–205 × 1.5–9 mm, bases attenuate;
    proximal cauline usually withering by flowering (with clusters of smaller leaves in axils, often elongating into branches);
    cauline sessile, blades linear-oblanceolate, (10–) 30–80 (–150) × 1–4 (–9) mm, gradually reduced distally, bases slightly dilated and clasping to rounded.
    Heads (disciform) in ± dense, narrow to pyramidal, paniculiform to racemiform arrays, branches decumbent (proximal) to ascending (distal);
    peduncles 0–1 cm, glabrous, bracts linear-lanceolate to linear, crowding heads.
    Involucres narrowly campanulate, 5–7 (–11) mm.
    Phyllaries in 3–4 series, loose, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, subequal or outer sometimes longer, bases scarious, margins narrowly scarious proximally (outer), scabrous, green zones foliaceous (outer and mid) to lanceolate (inner), apices acute (rarely obtuse), mucronulate, faces glabrous.
    Pistillate florets 75–95+ in 4–5+ series;
    laminae 0 (corolla-tubes ± 2 mm, shorter than style-branches).
    Disc-florets ± 14;
    corollas whitish turning pink, ± ampliate, tubes slender, longer than narrowly funnelform limbs, 3.5–5 mm, lobes narrowly triangular, ± 0.2 mm.
    Cypselae purple or grayish with purple streaks, obovoid to oblong-obovoid, ± compressed, 1.5–2.5 mm, 2–4-nerved (faint), faces hirsuto-strigose;
    pappi white or pinkish, 4–6 mm. 2n = 14.