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|accepted_name=Symphyotrichum shortii
|accepted_authority=(Lindley) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 291. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Short’s aster
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster shortii
|authority=Lindley
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster camptosorus
|authority=Small
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum subg. Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum sect. Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum shortii
|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. Symphyotrichum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Symphyotrichum sect. Symphyotrichum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Symphyotrichum shortii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 471, 474, 500, 502, 504, 506
|treatment_page=page 505
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 30–150 cm, cespitose; short-rhizomatous or with ± woody caudices. <b>Stems</b> 1–5+, ascending to erect (straight, sometimes stout), proximally glabrous, distally ± densely hirtellous. <b>Leaves</b> thin, margins often slightly revolute, scabrous, apices mucronate or mucronulate, abaxial faces sparsely to moderately hispid, especially along veins, adaxial glabrous (midveins scabrous, veins marked) to strigoso-hispid (basal); basal withering by flowering (new winter rosette sometimes developing), petiolate (petioles 1–2 times as long as blades, sometimes narrowly winged, sheathing, densely pilose or hirsute), blades ovate to lance-ovate, 10–60 × 10–35 mm, deeply to shallowly cordate or rounded, margins crenate or crenate-serrate, apices obtuse to acute; proximal cauline mostly persistent, narrowly petiolate (petioles slender, progressively reduced distally, bases at most slightly clasping), blades ovate to lanceolate, 50–150 × 20–60(–70) mm, progressively reduced distally, bases shallowly cordate to subcordate, truncate, or rounded, sometimes oblique, margins entire, scabrous or shallowly crenate-serrate (proximal), apices acute to acuminate; distal short-petiolate (petioles sometimes narrowly winged, sometimes slightly clasping) or sessile (distalmost, rameal), blades ovate to lanceolate (rameal lance-linear to linear, sharply smaller), 8–80 × 1–40 mm, gradually reduced distally, bases rounded to cuneate or attenuate, margins entire to subentire, apices acute to acuminate. <b>Heads</b> usually in open, diffuse to narrow, paniculiform arrays, sometimes racemiform, branches widely spreading, usually divaricate to arching, sometimes ascending, sometimes ± secund, abundantly leafy. <b>Peduncles</b> 0.2–3(–5) cm, densely hirtellous, bracts 3–10+, ovate or lanceolate to subulate, grading into phyllaries. <b>Involucres</b> cylindro-campanulate, 4–6 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 4–5(–6) series, appressed, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate (outer) to linear-lanceolate or linear (inner), strongly unequal, bases indurate 1/2–5/6, margins scarious, erose, hyaline, ciliolate, green zones lanceolate to diamond-shaped (midveins below green zone sometimes inflated and brownish), apices acute to acuminate, often involute, mucronulate, faces strigilloso-hirsutulous. <b>Ray</b> florets 13–15(–20); corollas usually blue or purple-blue, seldom pinkish or white, laminae (10–)11–16 × 1.3–3.1 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 16–23(–28?); corollas light yellow becoming reddish purple, 4.6–7 mm, tubes shorter than funnelform throats, lobes lanceolate, 0.4–1.1 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> dull purple or brown, oblong-obovoid, compressed, 2.5–3.7 mm, 4–7-nerved, faces glabrous; pappi reddish brown, tawny, or rose-tinged, 4–6.2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 16, 32.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Open, often thin, rocky, well-drained soils, oak-hickory woods, edges of woods, thickets, calcareous hammocks, wooded stream banks or cliffs, roadsides
|elevation=100–500 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Md.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;N.C.;Pa.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|discussion=<p><i>Symphyotrichum shortii</i> is of conservation concern along the whole periphery of its range, notably in Canada; there is a report from the District of Columbia but the species is not established there. <i>Aster</i> shortii Lindley forma gronemannii Benke is a roseate phenotype, and forma candidus Benke a white one, forma shortii being the normal blue or purple one. They are not recognized here.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Symphyotrichum shortii
|author=
|authority=(Lindley) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Aster camptosorus
|basionyms=Aster shortii
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Open, often thin, rocky, well-drained soils, oak-hickory woods, edges of woods, thickets, calcareous hammocks, wooded stream banks or cliffs, roadsides
|elevation=100–500 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Md.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;N.C.;Pa.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1995
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Symphyotrichum
|subgenus=Symphyotrichum subg. Symphyotrichum
|section=Symphyotrichum sect. Symphyotrichum
|species=Symphyotrichum shortii
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