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Symphyotrichum boreale ~ northern bog aster

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Characteristics:

• OBL

• Michigan C Value: 9

• formerly known as Aster borealis or Aster junciformis

• also known as "boreal aster" and "rush aster"

• white flower rays (but may be pinkish or bluish)

• usually less than a six flowers per plant

• 1–3 feet high

• long, conspicuous peduncles

• long slender leaves (similar to grass leaves)

• colonial from long, creeping rhysomes

• leaves are one–veined

• smooth stem

• can look like a slender, gracefully–flowered S. lanceolatum

• fens, calcareous sedge meadows

• native