Minnesota Seasons - white prairie aster

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Description


Distribution
		Sources 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 29, 30.
3/18/2024


Taxonomy
Kingdom	Plantae (green algae and land plants)
Subkingdom	Viridiplantae (green plants)
Infrakingdom	Streptophyta (land plants and green algae)
Superdivision	Embryophyta (land plants)
Division	Tracheophyta (vascular plants)
Subdivision	Spermatophytina (seed plants) / Angiospermae (flowering plants)
Class	Magnoliopsida (flowering plants)
Superorder	Asteranae
Order	Asterales (sunflowers, bellflowers, fanflowers, and allies)
Family	Asteraceae (sunflowers, daisies, asters, and allies)
Subfamily	Asteroideae
Supertribe	Asterodae
Tribe	Astereae (asters and allies)
Subtribe	Symphyotrichinae
Genus	Symphyotrichum (American asters)
Subgenus	Virgulus (virguloid asters)
Section	Ericoidei (white heath and prairie asters)

Subordinate Taxa
white prairie aster (Symphyotrichum falcatum var. commutatum) white prairie aster (Symphyotrichum falcatum var. falcatum)

Synonyms
Aster elegantulus Aster falcatus Aster ramulosus Haplopappus falcatus Lasallea falcata Stenotus falcatus Venatris falcata Virgulus falcatus

Common Names
white prairie aster


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Symphyotrichum falcatum
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The arrangement of the flowering heads (which have white ray flowers) and the coarse spreading hairs born on the stem and narrow leaves are distinctive of this species (along with its ecology and rhizomatous growth habit). A rhizomatous herb common to the sagebrush steppe and in contrast to Symphyotrichum ascendens has a predilection to a more stable environment including undisturbed sagebrush steppe.

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