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|accepted_name=Symphyotrichum phlogifolium
|accepted_authority=(Muhlenberg ex Willdenow) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 289. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Thin-leaf late purple aster
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster phlogifolius
|authority=Muhlenberg ex Willdenow
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster patens var. phlogifolius
|authority=(Muhlenberg ex Willdenow) Nees
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Virgulus patens var. phlogifolius
|authority=(Muhlenberg ex Willdenow) Reveal & Keener
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum subg. Virgulus;Symphyotrichum phlogifolium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Astereae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Symphyotrichum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Symphyotrichum subg. Virgulus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Symphyotrichum phlogifolium]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 470, 483
|treatment_page=page 490
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 50–130 cm, cespitose; with short, thick, woody caudices, not rhizomatous. <b>Stems</b> 1, erect to arching, light to dark brown, soft-hairy, hairs ascending- to spreading- stipitate-glandular distally. <b>Leaves</b> (dark green) thin, almost membraneous; basal early deciduous, sessile or subpetiolate, blades spatulate to obovate, 80–140 × 20–30 mm, bases cuneate, margins entire to ± serrate, scabrous, apices acute; proximal cauline withering by flowering, sessile, blades panduriform, (20–)30–70(–110) × 10–30(–35) mm, bases auriculate-clasping, margins entire (flat), sparsely villoso-ciliate, apices acute, faces finely sparely villous or scabrous, stipitate-glandular; distal sessile, blades (rugose-veined when fresh) ovate to lanceolate, 75–125(–140) × 15–35(–40) mm, bases strongly cordate-clasping to auriculate-amplexicaul, margins entire (± undulate), apices acute, acuminate to merely mucronate, faces sparsely strigose, moderately so along veins, sparsely to moderately stipitate-glandular. <b>Heads</b> in crowded, paniculiform arrays, branches often initially patent then ascending. <b>Peduncles</b> short (less than 4 cm), strigose, stipitate-glandular, bracts linear-lanceolate, ascending-appressed, grading into phyllaries. <b>Involucres</b> cylindric, 5.5–7.5(–8) mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 4–6 series, linear-lanceolate, unequal, bases (tan) ± indurate in proximal 1/3–1/2, margins hyaline, erose, distally scabro-ciliolate to ciliolate, green zones covering distal 1/2, apices outer obtuse to acute, inner acuminate, purplish, faces sparsely strigillose, usually moderately to densely stipitate-glandular, rarely sparsely so. <b>Ray</b> florets 9–17; corollas light to dark reddish purple, laminae 10–18(–20) × 1–3 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 15–35; corollas white with purple lobes, 6–8 mm, lobes triangular, 1–1.5 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> dark brown to black, obovoid, not compressed, 2.5–4 mm, 7–10-nerved, faces densely strigose along ribs; pappi tan to tawny, sometimes slightly purplish-tinged, 6–8 mm. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Loamy, sandy, or gravelly soils, rich mesic mixed-hardwood forests (Appalachians), roadsides
|elevation=0–1100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ga.;Ind.;Ky.;Md.;Mass.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Symphyotrichum phlogifolium
|author=
|authority=(Muhlenberg ex Willdenow) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Aster patens var. phlogifolius;Virgulus patens var. phlogifolius
|basionyms=Aster phlogifolius
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Loamy, sandy, or gravelly soils, rich mesic mixed-hardwood forests (Appalachians), roadsides
|elevation=0–1100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ga.;Ind.;Ky.;Md.;Mass.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1995
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Symphyotrichum
|subgenus=Symphyotrichum subg. Virgulus
|species=Symphyotrichum phlogifolium
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