Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (2/10/25):
Eurybia chlorolepis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eurybia chlorolepis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Eurybia chlorolepis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Eurybia chlorolepis
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-006b:
Aster divaricatus var. chlorolepis FAMILY Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Aster divaricatus
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster chlorolepis
COMMON NAME:
Blue Ridge White Heart-leaved Aster, Mountain Wood-aster
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JK Marlow jkm0508c_13
August Transylvania County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Leaves ovate to lance-ovate or the upper elliptic to lanceolate, acuminate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm150814_731
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Usually found above 1200m (vs. A. divaricatus usually found below 1200m), per The Taxonomic Status and Probable Origin of Aster chlorolepis, a Southern Appalachian Endemic (Lamboy, 1992).
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JK Marlow jkm180821_3997
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Longest peduncle in capitulescence > 1.5cm (A. divaricatus < 1.5cm), per The Taxonomic Status and Probable Origin of Aster chlorolepis, a Southern Appalachian Endemic (Lamboy, 1992).
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JK Marlow jkm180821_4001
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
COMPARE
asters with heart-shaped leaves
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmechlorolep_whiteside1
Month Unknown Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
Rays white, usually 10 or more, 1.5-2cm long, disc flowers yellow or red, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmechlorolepis_craggy
Month Unknown Buncombe County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (2/10/25):
Eurybia chlorolepis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eurybia chlorolepis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Eurybia chlorolepis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Eurybia chlorolepis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-006b:
Aster divaricatus var. chlorolepis
FAMILY
Asteraceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Aster divaricatus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Aster chlorolepis
149
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: northern hardwood forests, spruce-fir forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in NC Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal leaves absent or withered at flowering)
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: White
Disc: Yellow becoming purplish
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads in corymbs
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p107?
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962) p130?
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p454?
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p185
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p080
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011) p371
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p209?
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