Symphyotrichum chilense (Nees) G. L. Nesom (Q2486)

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Symphyotrichum chilense is a taxon with the rank species within the section Symphyotrichum sect. Occidentales
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Symphyotrichum chilense (Nees) G. L. Nesom
Symphyotrichum chilense is a taxon with the rank species within the section Symphyotrichum sect. Occidentales

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    taxon/id/Symphyotrichum chilense (Nees) G.L. Nesom
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    Symphyotrichum chilense (Nees) G.L. Nesom
    Symphyotrichum chilense
    (Nees) 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 chilense
    aster de Californie (French)
    Pacific aster (English)
    common California aster (English)
    Common California or Pacific aster (English)
    1 reference
    Douglas, G.W., G.B. Straley, D.V. Meidinger & J. Pojar. 1998. Illustrated Flora of British Columbia. B.C. Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks and B.C. Ministry of Forests. Victoria. Crown Publications. 8 vols.
    1 reference
    Harms, V.L. 2003. Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Saskatchewan and the provincially and nationally rare native plants in Saskatchewan. University of Saskatchewan, University Extension Press.
    Flowering Jul–Sep.
    grasslands
    salt marshes
    coastal dunes
    bluffs
    coastal grasslands
    habitats
    evergreen
    pacific coast coniferous
    forest
    0–500 m
    Stems 1–5+, ascending or erect, glabrous or hirsute.
    Leaves thin, margins entire, apices usually acute, faces glabrous or sparsely puberulent;
    basal withering by flowering, petiolate, blades (linear-) oblanceolate to obovate, 30–200 × 4–40 mm, bases attenuate, margins entire to finely serrate, apices acute;
    proximalmost cauline sometimes withering by flowering, sessile, blades broadly to narrowly oblanceolate, 40–150 × 5–30 mm, bases usually ± attenuate or cuneate;
    distal sessile, blades lanceolate to oblanceolate, 25–90 × 5–30 mm, bases cuneate.
    Heads in open, paniculiform arrays, some branches at least 20+ cm.
    Peduncles puberulent, bracts 3–10, lanceolate to elliptic, margins often scabrous to ciliolate.
    Involucres campanulate, 5–8 mm.
    Phyllaries in 3–5 series, oblanceolate or oblong (outer) to linear (inner), unequal to subequal (outer usually shorter than inner, if so, lengths less than 3 times widths), bases scarious (outer) less than 1/2 or sometimes wholly foliaceous, inner scarious, margins eciliate or ciliolate, green zones oblanceolate to obovate or linear (innermost), apices (outer) obtuse, (inner) acute, faces glabrous or puberulent.
    Ray-florets 15–40;
    corollas violet, laminae 9–15 × 1.5–2.5 mm.
    Disc-florets 35–60+;
    corollas yellow, 4–8 mm, lobes triangular, 0.5–1 mm.
    Cypselae brown, cylindric to obovoid, not compressed, 3.5–4.5 mm, 2–4-nerved, faces hairy;
    pappi white to tawny, 4–8 mm. 2n = 48, 64, 96.