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Aster subulatus Michx.

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Aster subulatus Michx.
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Aster subulatus

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subulatus

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Aster subulatus Michx.

Tap-rooted annual or short-lived perennial herb, glabrous or rarely with a few hairs on upper stem; stems erect, terete, sparingly branched below, 20-200 -(300) cm tall, rarely stems resprouting and somewhat woody after flowering. Mid cauline lvs lanceolate to linear, apetiolate and cuneate, acute, crenulate or remotely serrulate, 35-150 × 3-10-(20) mm; lowermost lvs mostly petiolate, elliptic, cuneate, obtuse; uppermost lvs linear. Infl. a many-headed diffuse panicle. Capitula 2-5 mm diam. Involucral bracts very unequal; inner bracts narrow-oblong to subulate, acute to slightly acuminate, green toward apex and along midrib, purplish at apex and margins, 5-8 mm long; outer bracts not wholly herbaceous, c. 2 mm long. Ray florets numerous; ligules white to pale purple, c. 1-2 mm long. Achenes subcylindric to ellipsoid, compressed, 4-5-ribbed, 1.5-2.2 mm long, with sparse antrorse hairs.

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Aster subulatus Michx.
Aster subulatus Michx.
Aster subulatus Michx.
Aster subulatus Michx.
Aster subulatus Michx.
Aster subulatus Michx.
Aster subulatus Michx.
Aster subulatus Michx.

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Aster subulatus Michx.
Cook Islands
Aster subulatus Michx.
Fiji
Aster subulatus Michx.
French Polynesia
Aster subulatus Michx.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Aster subulatus Michx.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Aster subulatus Michx.
Niue
Aster subulatus Michx.
Norfolk Island
Aster subulatus Michx.
Tonga

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17f3d5fc-2f7e-459e-a30a-d565fbacc403
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
11 June 2012
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