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Symphyotrichum lanceolatum ~ panicled aster

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Characteristics:

• FACW

• Michigan C Value: 2

• also known as Aster simplex and Aster lanceolatus

• no hairs (smooth) on leaf mid–vein and sides of leaves

• hairs in lines or absent from stem

• leaves narrow, slender, smooth

• central axis straight upright

• numerous small heads on long peduncles

• flowers almost always white in Lower Peninsula

• central disk up to 2.54cm wide

• yellow central disk, then brownish at maturity

• rhizome (colonial, but highly variable)

• long, slender creeping rhizomes (no rosettes for next year)

• 1.82m high

• tallest of its group

• taller and more slender than S. laterifloris

• often shade intolerant

• commonest white aster of roadside wetlands in Michigan

• native