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Symphyotrichum praealtum ~ willow aster

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Characteristics:

• FACW

• Michigan C Value: 6

• rare

• Listed in Michigan as Special Concern

• also known as Aster praealtus and "willow–leaved aster"

• small, light blue to almost white flowers

• very late–flowering (last to bloom in Michigan)

• vaguely like a bushy S. lanceolatus

• leaves are long, narrow, and not clasping

• lateral rhizomes

• slight roundness of stem

• conspicuous reticulate "net" venation of the undersides of the leaves, similar to Doellingeria umbellata

• localized; found mostly in moist lakeplain prairies of SE Michigan

• native