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Aster lanceolatus ~ Symphyotrichum lanceolatum ~ white panicle aster

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Characteristics:
  • FACW
  • Michigan C Value: 2
  • Syn: Aster simplex, panicled aster
  • no hairs on leaf mid-vein
  • hairs in lines or absent from stem
  • leaves narrow, slender, smooth
  • central axis straight upright
  • yellow central disk
  • tallest of its group
  • rhizome (colonial)
  • often shade intolerant
  • commonest white aster of roadside wetlands in Michigan
  • has creeping rhizomes (no rosettes for next year)
  • heads up to 2.54cm wide
  • 1.82m high
  • taller and more slender than A. laterifloris
  • native
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