Symphyotrichum walteri

Walter’s Aster

Symphyotrichum walteri (Alexander in Small) G.L. Nesom is native to sandy, clayey soils, margins of woods, open oak-pine scrub, pine flatwoods, fields, roadsides of outer Piedmont and the Coastal plain from central North Carolina to Florida (Brouillet et al. 2006 FNA).  The species is distinguished by its erect to scandent-climbing stems that are branched from mid to upper nodes, thick, firm, ± succulent, patent to reflexed leaves, and heads borne singly, overall in diffusely paniculiform arrays. The species is tetraploid with x=5 (2n=20).

Last updated 22 February 2014 by J.C. Semple

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