Compilation
Aster erigeroides

shrubby; branches virgate, appressedly pubescent, leafy; leaves obovate, elliptic-oblong or broadly linear, obtuse, mostly 3-nerved, narrowed to the base, sparsely hispid becoming glabrous, serrulato-ciliolate; axils bearing leaf-tufts; lateral twigs naked toward the summit, ending in a fl.-head, forming a thyrsus or panicle of fl.-heads; invol.-scales flattish, acute, ciliate, glabrescent; achenes pubescent, narrow-cuneate. One to two feet high, robust, becoming quite woody. Branches 12–18 inches long, rodlike, closely leafy, bearing toward the summit many short, half-leafy flowering twigs. Leaves 3/4–1 1/4 inch long, 2–4 lines wide: the lateral nerves not always apparent, but often visible even in the narrowest leaves of var. β. The ray-fl. are pink or light purple.