Eurybia spectabilis

Eurybia spectabilis (Ait.) G.L. Nesom is native to mostly sandy soils, sometimes dry clay, granite outcrops, dry, oak-pine woods, pine barrens, peat bogs, borders of woods, clearings, fields, roadsides on the Atlantic Coastal Plain from Massachusetts south to North Carolina where the range turns southwest to the Piedmont in South Carolina, Georgia and northeastern Alabama (Brouillet 2006 FNA). It also occurs in disjunct populations on the outer Coastal Plain in South Carolina.  The species was first described as Aster spectabilis Ait. The species is distinguished from similar species by its large heads with squarrose, densely stipitate-glandular phyllaries.  The species is of conservation concern throughout its range. The species is octoploid (2n=72).

Hybrids with E. macrophylla occur and have been name E. ×herveyi (Brouillet 2006 FNA).

Last revised 12 May 2025 by J.C. Semple

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