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Aster glaucescens

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Identification
Aster glaucescens (A.Gray) S.F.Blake [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Aster engelmannii Not on Sheet [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Aster engelmannii
  • Aster glaucescens
Common name
  • Klickitat aster, Flora of North America Vol. 20

Flora

Entry for Eucephalus glaucescens (A. Gray) Greene [family ]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 20,
Names
Eucephalus glaucescens (A. Gray) Greene [family ], Pittonia, 3: 56. 1896
Aster engelmannii (D. C. Eaton) A. Gray var. glaucescens A. Gray [family COMPOSITAE], in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer., 1(2): 200. 1884 (as engelmanni)
Aster glaucescens (A. Gray) S. F. Blake [family COMPOSITAE]
Aster glaucophyllus (Piper) Frye & Rigg [family COMPOSITAE]
Aster serrulatus (Greene) Frye & Rigg [family COMPOSITAE]
Eucephalus glaucophyllus Piper [family ]
Eucephalus serrulatus Greene [family ]
Treatment Author(s)
Geraldine A. Allen
Information
Perennials, 40–160 cm (with caudices; herbage glabrous, ± glaucous). Stems erect, glabrous. Leaves: mid and distal blades linear to narrowly lance-elliptic, 4–10 cm × 4–16 mm. Heads 5–20(–60) in racemiform to paniculiform arrays. Peduncles glabrous or sparsely stipitate-glandular. Involucres turbinate to campanulate, 7–9 mm. Phyllaries in 3–5 series (reddish distally), linear to lanceolate or lance-ovate (unequal), apices acuminate, abaxial faces sparsely stipitate-glandular. Rays commonly 8 or 13, purple. Cypselae obconic, flattened, strigose; pappus bristles in 2 series, smooth or ± barbellate.
Conservation Status
of conservation concern;
Phenology
jul-aug (summer), sep-oct (fall)
Altitude range
800–1500 m;
Distribution
USA Wash.
Discussion
Eucephalus glaucescens is known from the vicinity of Mt. Adams in Klickitat, Skamania, and Yakima counties. Intermediates with E. ledophyllus have been reported.

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