Symphyotrichum subulatum (Michaux) G. L. Nesom (Q2519)

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Symphyotrichum subulatum is a taxon with the rank species within the subgenus Symphyotrichum subg. Astropolium
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Symphyotrichum subulatum (Michaux) G. L. Nesom
Symphyotrichum subulatum is a taxon with the rank species within the subgenus Symphyotrichum subg. Astropolium

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    taxon/id/Symphyotrichum subulatum (Michaux) G.L. Nesom
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    Symphyotrichum subulatum (Michaux) G.L. Nesom
    Symphyotrichum subulatum
    (Michaux) 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 subulatum
    annual saltmarsh aster (English)
    eastern annual saltmarsh aster (English)
    aster subulé (French)
    Annual saltmarsh or eastern annual saltmarsh aster (English)
    aster subulé (English)
    Mexico
    West Indies
    Bermuda
    Central America
    South America
    widely worldwide
    Stems 1, erect (often with purple or purplish brown areas), glabrous or glabrate, sometimes strigillose in leaf-axils.
    Leaves thin (green to dark green), margins often strigilloso-ciliolate, faces glabrous;
    basal withering by flowering, long-petiolate (petiole bases sheathing), sparsely ciliate, blades ovate to oblanceolate, 10–90 × 6–14 mm, bases attenuate to cuneate, rounded, margins entire or serrulate or crenulate, apices rounded, obtuse, or acute;
    proximal cauline withering by flowering, petiolate, subpetiolate, or sessile, blades narrowly lanceolate or subulate, 20–100 (–200) × 1.5–10 (–20) mm, bases attenuate, margins subentire, entire, or serrulate, apices acute to acuminate;
    distal sessile, blades narrowly lanceolate to subulate, 5–113 × 0.5–5.5 mm, apices acuminate.
    Heads (10–) 30–100 (–150), in open, diffuse, paniculiform arrays.
    Peduncles (0.2–) 0.5–4 cm, bracts 4–8 (–17).
    Involucres cylindric to turbinate, 5–7 (–8.2) mm.
    Phyllaries in 3–5 series, broadly or narrowly lanceolate to subulate, unequal, bases indurate, margins hyaline, often purple-tinged, entire, green zones lanceolate (usually narrow, sometimes broad and covering most of distal portion), apices acute, faces glabrous.
    Ray-florets 16–30 (–54) in 1–3 series;
    corollas white, pink, or lavender, laminae 1.3–7 × 0.2–1.3 mm.
    Disc-florets 4–10 (–13);
    corollas yello, sometimes tinged with purple, 3.4–5.2 mm, throats narrowly funnelform, lobes ± spreading to erect, narrowly triangular, 0.3–0.7 mm, glabrous.
    Cypselae light-brown to purple, narrowly obovoid to fusiform, sometimes ± compressed, (1.2–) 1.5–2.7 (–3) mm, 5-nerved, faces sparsely strigillose;
    pappi white, (3–) 3.5–5.5 mm.