Symphyotrichum fendleri

(A. Gray) G. L. Nesom

Phytologia 77: 282. 1995.

Common names: Fendler’s aster
Endemic
Basionym: Aster fendleri A. Gray Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s. 4: 66. 1849
Synonyms: Virgulus fendleri (A. Gray) Reveal & Keener
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 20. Treatment on page 486. Mentioned on page 471, 483.

Perennials, 6–30 cm, cespitose; with thick, woody, branched caudices. Stems 1–10+, decumbent to ascending or erect (grayish brown, slender), sparsely strigoso-hispid, ± scabrous. Leaves (dark bright green) firm, much reduced distally, margins entire, apices acute, mucronate, faces usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely strigoso-hispid; basal withering by flowering (new vernal rosettes often present), sessile, blades (1–3-nerved) linear-oblanceolate, 20–40 × 5–30 mm, bases attenuate, margins scabro-ciliate; proximal cauline sometimes persistent, sessile, blades linear to linear-lanceolate, 10–40 × 5–20 mm, bases sometimes subclasping, margins entire, scabrous; distal sessile, blades linear to linear-lanceolate, 20–40 × 2–3 mm, bases cuneate, margins entire, coarsely cililate-spinulose, apices acute, white-spinulose, faces sometimes stipitate-glandular. Heads in ± narrowly racemiform to paniculiform arrays, branches sometimes initially patent, then spreading to ascending. Peduncles sparsely hispido-strigose, ± densely stipitate-glandular, bracts ± ascending, linear to lance-oblong, grading into phyllaries. Involucres campanulate, 4–7 mm. Phyllaries in 3–4 series, lanceolate, unequal, bases ± indurate, margins narrowly to widely scarious, hyaline except apically, sometimes ciliolate, often stipitate-glandular, green zones lanceolate to diamond-shaped, covering distal portion (outer), apices acuminate, spreading to reflexed, faces glabrous, moderately to densely short-stipitate-glandular. Ray-florets 10–20; corollas light to dark lavender to purple, laminae 5–10 × 1–2 mm. Disc-florets (7–) 10–30; corollas yellow becoming reddish purple, 3.5–5 mm, throats narrowly funnelform, lobes narrowly triangular, 0.4–0.7 mm. Cypselae brown (nerves stramineous), obovoid, ± compressed, 1.5–2.5 mm, 7–10-nerved, faces moderately strigillose; pappi cinnamon to sordid, sometimes purplish-tinged, 4.5–5 mm. 2n = 10.


Phenology: Flowering (Aug–)Sep–Oct.
Habitat: Open, sandy, silty, shaly, often rocky soils, eroded limestone or sandstone outcrops, mixed-grass prairies, pastures, roadsides
Elevation: 600–2000 m

Distribution

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Colo., Kans., Nebr., N.Mex., Okla., Tex.

Discussion

Symphyotrichum fendleri has been reported from Mexico (Chihuahua) [by C. H. Schultz-Bipontinus (1856) fide G. L. Nesom (pers. comm.)], but its occurrence in Mexico remains to be confirmed.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Symphyotrichum fendleri"
not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
distinct +
spreading +  and reflexed +
acuminate;acute;mucronate;acute +
subequal +
scarious +
usually triangular +  and linear +
usually deltate +  and lanceolate +
less narrowly racemiform +  and paniculiform +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Luc Brouillet +, John C. Semple +, Geraldine A. Allen +, Kenton L. Chambers +  and Scott D. Sundberg† +
(A. Gray) G. L. Nesom +
linear-oblanceolate;obovate;oblanceolate +
subclasping +  and sessile +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
cuneate +, attenuate +  and linear-oblanceolate +
indurate +
5mm;30mm +
Aster fendleri +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
linear;linear-lanceolate +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
rugulose +  and muricate +
linear +  and lance-oblong +
spreading;ascending +
barbellulate +  and barbellate +
Fendler’s aster +
not 2-lipped +  and actinomorphic +
yellow becoming reddish purple +, light +  and dark lavender +
at maturity , more or less ampliate , tubes usually shorter +
0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
beaked +, 2-ribbed +  and 5-ribbed +
compressed +  and obovoid +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
Colo. +, Kans. +, Nebr. +, N.Mex. +, Okla. +  and Tex. +
600–2000 m +
strigillose +, glabrous +  and moderately densely short-stipitate-glandular +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Open, sandy, silty, shaly, often rocky soils, eroded limestone or sandstone outcrops, mixed-grass prairies, pastures, roadsides +
disciform +  and radiate +
indeterminate +
heterogamous +  and homogamous +
each +  and sessile +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (2.2 cm22 mm <br />0.022 m <br />) +
campanulate +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
2.4 cm24 mm <br />0.024 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
sessile +  and petiolate +
cauline +  and basal +
reduced +
decurrent +
triangular +
cililate-spinulose +  and entire +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
ciliate +  and scabrous +
lanceolate +  and diamond-shaped +
5mm +  and 30mm +
2-carpellate +
purplish-tinged +, cinnamon +  and sordid +
persistent +
25 +  and 40 +
0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
stipitate-glandular +  and hispido-strigose +
Flowering (Aug–)Sep–Oct. +
lanceolate +
styliferous +, neuter +  and pistillate +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
flat;slightly convex +
exalbuminous +
branched +  and simple +
decumbent +  and ascending or erect +
strigoso-hispid +
1 +  and 10 +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +  and smooth +
Virgulus fendleri +
Symphyotrichum fendleri +
Symphyotrichum subg. Virgulus +
species +
at maturity , more or less ampliate , tubes usually shorter +
ampliate +
with cormoid caudices +  and rhizomatous +
stipitate-glandular +
6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br /> (30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br />) +
tree +, shrub +  and subshrub +
stipitate-glandular +  and ciliolate +
lanceolate +  and diamond--shaped +