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Aster puniceus ~ Symphyotrichum puniceum ~ purple stemmed aster

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Characteristics:
  • OBL
  • Michigan C Value: 5
  • known as "swamp aster"
  • pale blue flower
  • stem often purplish or purplish blotches on stem at leaf axils
  • CLASPING leaves with teeth
  • leaves are less dense than A. Firmus
  • quite bristly-hairy stem
  • non-sticky flower head
  • clump forming, thick base (does not spread by long rhizomes)
  • swamps, fens, and wet thickets
  • heads up to 3.8cm wide
  • plant up to 2.44m tall
  • native
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