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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Symphyotrichum adnatum
|accepted_authority=(Nuttall) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 275. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Scaleleaf aster
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster adnatus
|authority=Nuttall
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lasallea adnata
|authority=(Nuttall) Semple & Brouillet
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Virgulus adnatus
|authority=(Nuttall) Reveal & Keener
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum subg. Virgulus;Symphyotrichum adnatum
|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 adnatum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 470, 483
|treatment_page=page 491
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 30–120 cm, cespitose; with herbaceous or thick, woody, sometimes cormoid caudices. <b>Stems</b> 5+, erect to scandent-sprawling (brown, branched from middle), moderately to densely finely hairy. <b>Leaves</b> (yellowish green) thick, firm, margins entire; basal early deciduous, sessile or subpetiolate, blades (3-nerved) oblanceolate to obovate, 10–43 × 7–15 mm, bases cuneate, margins scabrous, apices acute to obtuse, faces sparsely finely scabrous; proximal cauline sessile, blades narrowly obovate to oblanceolate, 20–35 × 5–13 mm, bases auriculate-clasping, margins finely scabrous, apices acute to obtuse, faces finely scabrous, shiny; distal sessile, blades lanceolate to linear, 3–10 × 1–4 mm, gradually reduced to bracts distally, bases subclasping and adnate to stem for 1/2+ length, apices narrowly acute, white-spinulose, faces finely scabrous, viscid, minutely stipitate-glandular. <b>Heads</b> in ± open, paniculiform arrays, branches initially patent then ascending or divaricate. <b>Peduncles</b> densely short-strigose, glandular, bracts linear, adnate, densely short-strigose. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate, 4–6.5 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 4–5 series, oblong to oblanceolate, strongly unequal, bases (tan) ± indurate, margins hyaline, finely scabrous, green zones lenticular, in distal 1/4–2/5, apices obtuse, mucronate to finely subspinulose, faces scabrellous-puberulent, stipitate-glandular. <b>Ray</b> florets 10–20; corollas light to dark lavender, laminae 5–8 × 0.5–1.5 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 12–25; corollas yellow, 3.7–7 mm, throats narrowly funnelform, lobes triangular, 0.4–0.8 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> tan to brown, obovoid, not compressed, 2–2.5 mm, 6–10-nerved (faint), faces sparsely strigose; pappi tan, 3.75–8 mm. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Oct–Dec.
|habitat=Sandy, clayey soils, sandhills, oak-pine scrub, open pine flatwoods, roadsides
|elevation=0–100+ m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Symphyotrichum adnatum
|author=
|authority=(Nuttall) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Lasallea adnata;Virgulus adnatus
|basionyms=Aster adnatus
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Oct–Dec.
|habitat=Sandy, clayey soils, sandhills, oak-pine scrub, open pine flatwoods, roadsides
|elevation=0–100+ m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.
|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 adnatum
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