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|accepted_name=Symphyotrichum ciliatum
|accepted_authority=(Ledebour) G. L. Nesom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=77: 277. 1995
|year=1995
}}
|common_names=Rayless annual or rayless alkali aster;aster cilié
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Erigeron ciliatus
|authority=Ledebour
|publication_title=Icon. Pl.
|publication_place=1: 24. 1829
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster angustus
|authority=(Lindley) Torrey & A. Gray
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aster brachyactis
|authority=S. F. Blake
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Brachyactis angusta
|authority=(Lindley) Britton
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Brachyactis ciliata subsp. angusta
|authority=(Lindley) A. G. Jones
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum subg. Symphyotrichum;Symphyotrichum sect. Conyzopsis;Symphyotrichum ciliatum
|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. Conyzopsis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Symphyotrichum ciliatum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 467, 500
|treatment_page=page 499
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals,</b> 7–70+ cm. <b>Stems</b> 1, ascending to erect (straight), bluish yellowish green, often red-tinged, ± succulent, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> bluish (green) thin, sometimes ± fleshy, margins usually entire, sometimes serrulate, strigoso-ciliate to scabrous, midribs conspicuous, apices acute to short-acuminate, faces glabrous; basal withering by flowering, petiolate, blades spatulate, 15–205 × 1.5–9 mm, bases attenuate; proximal cauline usually withering by flowering (with clusters of smaller leaves in axils, often elongating into branches); cauline sessile, blades linear-oblanceolate, (10–)30–80(–150) × 1–4(–9) mm, gradually reduced distally, bases slightly dilated and clasping to rounded. <b>Heads</b> (disciform) in ± dense, narrow to pyramidal, paniculiform to racemiform arrays, branches decumbent (proximal) to ascending (distal); peduncles 0–1 cm, glabrous, bracts linear-lanceolate to linear, crowding heads. <b>Involucres</b> narrowly campanulate, 5–7(–11) mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 3–4 series, loose, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, subequal or outer sometimes longer, bases scarious, margins narrowly scarious proximally (outer), scabrous, green zones foliaceous (outer and mid) to lanceolate (inner), apices acute (rarely obtuse), mucronulate, faces glabrous. <b>Ray</b> florets 0. <b>Pistillate</b> florets 75–95+ in 4–5+ series; laminae 0 (corolla tubes ± 2 mm, shorter than style branches). <b>Disc</b> florets ± 14; corollas whitish turning pink, ± ampliate, tubes slender, longer than narrowly funnelform limbs, 3.5–5 mm, lobes narrowly triangular, ± 0.2 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> purple or grayish with purple streaks, obovoid to oblong-obovoid, ± compressed, 1.5–2.5 mm, 2–4-nerved (faint), faces hirsuto-strigose; pappi white or pinkish, 4–6 mm. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Moist, brackish soils, prairies, steppes, salt marshes (Hudson Bay), summer-receding prairie ponds, open grounds in loess hills, irrigation channels, winter-salted highways, railroads, waste grounds
|elevation=0–2000+ m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;N.W.T.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Colo.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Maine;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.Y.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wash.;Wis.;Wyo.;n Eurasia (w to Rumania).
|discussion=<p><i>Symphyotrichum ciliatum</i> is introduced east of the Prairies in winter-salted wastegrounds and roadsides; it is native in northern Ontario, however, in the saltmarshes of the western shore of James Bay. It is native to the steppes of Eurasia, westward to Rumania.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Symphyotrichum ciliatum
|author=
|authority=(Ledebour) G. L. Nesom
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Aster angustus;Aster brachyactis;Brachyactis angusta;Brachyactis ciliata subsp. angusta
|basionyms=Erigeron ciliatus
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Moist, brackish soils, prairies, steppes, salt marshes (Hudson Bay), summer-receding prairie ponds, open grounds in loess hills, irrigation channels, winter-salted highways, railroads, waste grounds
|elevation=0–2000+ m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;N.W.T.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Colo.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Maine;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.Y.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wash.;Wis.;Wyo.;n Eurasia (w to Rumania).
|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. Conyzopsis
|species=Symphyotrichum ciliatum
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