OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (10/20/20):
Eurybia radula   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key


SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eurybia radula   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge (Wofford, 1989)

Aster radula

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Aster radula

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Aster radula var. radula

 

COMMON NAME:
Rough-leaved Aster, Low Rough Aster


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image of Eurybia radula, Rough-leaved Aster, Low Rough Aster

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_asra8_001_lvd

        

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (10/20/20):
Eurybia radula   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eurybia radula   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge (Wofford, 1989)
Aster radula

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Aster radula

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Aster radula var. radula

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3404

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Circumneutral to calcareous wet meadows, possibly stream banks, per Weakley's Flora

Native north of the Carolinas

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Pale blue-violet
Disc: Yellow
Disc flowers bisexual & fertile/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile
Flower heads with 13-30 ray flowers
Inferior ovary

Flower heads in flat corymbs

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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