Almutaster pauciflorus
Taxon 31: 356. 1982.
Common names: Marsh alkali aster
Illustrated
Basionym: Aster pauciflorus Nuttall Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 2: 154. 1818
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 20. Treatment on page 461.
Plants laxly colonial. Stems sometimes reddish at base. Leaves: blades 10–100 mm, margins sometimes ciliate or (distal) stipitate-glandular, apices mucronulate; basal sometimes marcescent, petiole bases widened, clasping, apices obtuse or acute; cauline reduced distally, subclasping, apices acute. Heads (1–) 3–10 (–30+), each terminating long, ascending branch. Peduncle bracts 2–9, glandular. Phyllaries ± green, margins erose-hyaline, inner more widely so, apices mucronulate. Ray-floret laminae 5–8 mm. Cypselae golden brown, ribs stramineous. 2n = 18.
Phenology: Flowering spring–fall.
Habitat: Damp alkaline places, alluvial soils, with halophytic vegetation, inland salt marshes, along streams in ravines, ditches, in desert and dry prairie areas
Elevation: 200–2400 m
Distribution
Alta., Man., N.W.T., Sask., Ariz., Calif., Colo., Nev., N.Mex., N.Dak., S.Dak., Tex., Utah, Wyo., Mexico
Discussion
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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short-stipitate-glandular +
introrse +
connate +
distinct +
herbaceous +
mucronulate;acute;acute;obtuse;mucronulate +
scarious +
hirsute +
papillate +
paniculiform +
continuous +
petiolate +
marcescent +
decurrent +
1-nerved +
linear;oblong-spatulate or linear-lanceolate +
ribbed +
ascending +
stigmatic +
barbellate +
stramineous +
persistent +
30;40 +
subequal +
absent +
subclasping +
reduced +
Marsh alkali aster +
absent +
ampliate +
7-10-nerved +
golden brown +
dimorphic +
staminate +
straight +
distinct +
proximal +
1;5 +
bisexual +
dispersed +
Damp alkaline places, alluvial soils, with halophytic vegetation, inland salt marshes, along streams in ravines, ditches, in desert and dry prairie areas +
singly +
indeterminate +
3;10 +
Present +
surrounding +
campanulate +
alternate +
erect +
triangular +
erose-hyaline +
revolute +
scarious +
2-carpellate +
inferior +
attached +
anatropous +
tough +
thick +
absent +
connate +
widened +
1-nerved +
green +
persistent +
distinct +
falling +
subequal +
Taxon +
1982 +
pistillate +
absent +
fertile +
epaleate +
pitted +
flat;slightly convex +
stramineous +
fibrous +
exalbuminous +
modifed +
1;1;3;4 +
Illustrated +
alternate +
simple +
reddish +
lanceolate +
2-branched +
glabrous +
Almutaster pauciflorus +
Almutaster +
species +
tubular +
perennial +