Eurybia chlorolepis (E.S.Burgess) G.L.Nesom

Mountain aster (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Eurybia

Characteristics

Plants 25–80 cm; forming ± dense clones (lacking sterile rosettes); rhizomes elongate, thin, woody with age. Stems 1, erect, simple, flexuous, proximally glabrous or villous, more densely villous distally. Leaves basal and cauline, thin, margins ± sharply serrate, teeth (6–20 per side) mucronulate, strigoso-ciliate, apices acuminate, abaxial faces glabrous or sparsely villous, adaxial sparsely strigose, long-stipitate-glandular (black) along veins; basal and proximal cauline withering by flowering, long-petiolate, blades widely ovate, basal smaller than proximal, bases cordate to subcordate (sinuses narrow); cauline long (10–50 mm) petiolate, wingless or increasingly winged distally, blades ovate, 30–110 × 11–64 mm, bases cordate (proximal) to rounded or rounded-cuneate (distal); distal (arrays) sessile or short (0–11 mm), widely-winged petiolate, blades ovate, 8–38 × 5–23 mm. Heads 3–25+ in open, corymbiform arrays. Peduncles (subtended by ± reduced distal leaves, longest more than 1.5 cm) villous, eglandular; bracts 0(–1), abruptly smaller than leaves, 2–2.5 × 1–1.5 mm, sometimes subtending heads. Involucres campanulate, 6.5–9(–10) mm, shorter than pappi. Phyllaries ca. 27 in 4–5 series, ovate or oblong (outer) to oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate (inner), strongly unequal, membranous, bases indurate, pale green zones on less than distal 1 / 4 (outer, a few sometimes more than 1 / 2 ) to 1 / 6 or none (inner), margins not scarious, entire or slightly erose, often purplish distally (inner), densely villoso-ciliate, apices obtuse to acute, abaxial faces glabrous or sparsely villous, eglandular. Ray florets (8–)12–16(–20); corollas usually white, sometimes lilac-tinged, (10–)17–18(–20) × 2.6–3.3 mm. Disc florets (12–)17–26; corollas yellow, 5.6–6.1 mm, abruptly ampliate, tubes (3–3.6 mm) longer than campanulate throats (0.7–1.1 mm), lobes reflexed, lanceolate, 1.5–2 mm. Cypselae tan to brown, fusiform to cylindro-obovoid, slightly compressed, 3.3–3.5 mm, ribs 7–10, stramineous, faces glabrate to sparsely strigillose; pappi of pale cinnamon (fine, barbellulate) bristles 6.2–6.3 mm, equaling to longer than disc florets. 2n = 36, 45.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

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Distribution

Eurybia chlorolepis world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:981723-1
WFO ID wfo-0000129237
COL ID 3D37M
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Synonyms

Eurybia chlorolepis Aster chlorolepis Aster divaricatus var. chlorolepis