Symphyotrichum campestre (Nuttall) G. L. Nesom (Q2506)

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Symphyotrichum campestre is a taxon with the rank species within the subgenus Symphyotrichum subg. Virgulus
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Symphyotrichum campestre (Nuttall) G. L. Nesom
Symphyotrichum campestre is a taxon with the rank species within the subgenus Symphyotrichum subg. Virgulus

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    taxon/id/Symphyotrichum campestre (Nuttall) G.L. Nesom
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    Symphyotrichum campestre (Nuttall) G.L. Nesom
    Symphyotrichum campestre
    (Nuttall) 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 campestre
    western meadow aster (English)
    meadow aster (English)
    aster des champs (French)
    Western meadow aster (English)
    Flowering Aug–Oct.
    disturbed
    sandy soils
    streams
    dry grass meadows
    open pine-douglas fir forests
    plains to montane zones
    1500–2500 m
    Stems 1–5+, ascending to erect (light to dark-brown), proximally glabrous, distally strigose, stipitate-glandular.
    Leaves (light green) firm, margins entire, scabrous;
    basal sometimes persistent, sessile, blades (1–3-nerved) linear-oblanceolate, 10–30 × 4–10 mm, bases attenuate, apices obtuse, mucronate, faces glabrate to sparsely scabrous;
    proximal cauline withering by flowering, sessile, blades (3-nerved) narrowly oblanceolate, 20–80 × 2–8 mm, bases cuneate, apices obtuse to acute, mucronulate or white-spinulose, faces glabrous or moderately short-strigose, stipitate-glandular;
    distal sessile, blades linear-oblanceolate to lanceolate or oblong (distally), 20–50 × 2–5 mm, ± reduced distally, bases ± clasping to cuneate, apices acute, mucronulate, faces glabrous or moderately short-strigose, stipitate-glandular.
    Heads 1–10 (–30), borne singly or in paniculiform arrays, branches ascending.
    Peduncles sparsely to moderately short-strigose, moderately stipitate-glandular, bracts ± ascending, linear to narrowly-lanceolate.
    Involucres campanulate to cylindro-campanulate, 5.5–8 mm.
    Phyllaries in 3–4 series, linear to lanceolate, subequal to unequal, bases ± indurate, margins scarious, green zones covering distal portion, apices acute to acuminate, outer ± foliaceous, spreading to reflexed, faces glabrate, sparsely to densely stipitate-glandular.
    Ray-florets 15–31;
    corollas violet, laminae (5–) 6–15 × 1–2 mm.
    Disc-florets 25–40;
    corollas yellow, 4.5–6 mm, lobes triangular, 0.4–0.8 mm.
    Cypselae light-brown, sometimes translucent reddish-brown between ribs, narrowly obovoid, ± compressed, 2–2.5 mm, 3–4-nerved (faint), moderately strigose on ribs;
    pappi tawny, 3.8–6 mm. 2n = 10.