Log In New Account Sitemap
  • Home
  • Specimen Search
    • Search Collections
    • Map Search
    • Exsiccati Search
  • Images
    • Image Browser
    • Search Images
  • Flora Projects
    • Arizona
    • New Mexico
    • Colorado Plateau
    • Plant Atlas of Arizona (PAPAZ)
    • Sonoran Desert
    • Teaching Checklists
  • Agency Floras
    • NPS - Intermountain
    • USFWS - Region 2
    • BLM Flora
    • Coronado NF
  • Dynamic Floras
    • Dynamic Checklist
    • Dynamic Key
  • Additional Websites
    • New Mexico Flores
    • Plant Atlas Project of Arizona (PAPAZ)
    • Southwest Colorado Wildflowers
    • Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness
    • Consortium of Midwest Herbaria
    • Consortium of Southern Rocky Mountain Herbaria
    • Intermountain Region Herbaria Network (IRHN)
    • Mid-Atlantic Herbaria
    • North American Network of Small Herbaria (NANSH)
    • Northern Great Plains Herbaria
    • Red de Herbarios del Noroeste de México (northern Mexico)
    • SERNEC - Southeastern USA
    • Texas Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria (TORCH)
  • Resources
    • Help
    • Webinars
    • Joining a Symbiota Portal
Symphyotrichum fendleri (A. Gray) G. L. Nesom  
Go To Encyclopedia of Life...
Family: Asteraceae
Fendler's American-Aster, more...Fendler's aster
[Aster fendleri A.Gray, moreVirgulus fendleri (A.Gray) J.L.Reveal & C.S.Keener]
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
  • FNA
  • Web Links
Luc Brouillet, John C. Semple, Geraldine A. Allen, Kenton L. Chambers, Scott D. Sundberg+ in Flora of North America (vol. 20)
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. Flowering (Aug-)Sep-Oct. Open, sandy, silty, shaly, often rocky soils, eroded limestone or sandstone outcrops, mixed-grass prairies, pastures, roadsides; 600-2000 m; Colo., Kans., Nebr., N.Mex., Okla., Tex. 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.

  • Encyclopedia of Life
  • W3Tropicos
  • USDA PLANTS Database
  • Flora of North America
  • International Plant Names Index
  • Google Search Engine
  • Google Images
  • BOLD Systems - Barcode of Life Data Systems
  • Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
  • NCBI - National Center for Biotechnology Information
Symphyotrichum fendleri
Open Interactive Map
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Symphyotrichum fendleri image
Click to Display
100 Initial Images
- - - - -
View All Images
The National Science Foundation
Developments of SEINet, Symbiota, and associated specimen databases have been supported by National Science Foundation Grants (DBI 9983132, BRC 0237418, DBI 0743827, DBI 0847966)