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Symphyotrichum lateriflorum ~ calico aster

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Characteristics:

• FAC

• Michigan C Value: 2

• also known as Aster lateriflorus and "side flowering aster"

• midrib is typically rough–hairy

• underside of leaf blade hairless (except for very tiny hairs on underside of midrib)

• lateral branches densely flowered, spirally arranged

• rosy purple disk corollas (turns from yellow to rosy one day after flowering)

• slender stems vary from glabrous to pubescent

• stems often branched or sprawl from the lower nodes

• branches almost at 90 degree angle from main stem (shape similar to goldenrod)

• main stem often arching – central axis not upright

• no elongated rhizomes (single perennial base, not spreading)

• forms clumps from basal rosettes

• tolerates sun and shade

• variable habitats; common fields and meadows

• native